Here’s yet another reason to dislike the GOP: No, really
WASHINGTON, D.C: House Speaker, John Boehner told reporters today that the House rejected a bill to raise minimum wage across the country by $1.75.
“When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it,” the Ohio Republican told reporters Wednesday morning. “At a time when the American people are still asking the question ‘Where are the jobs?’, why would we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?”
“A lot of people who are being paid the minimum wage are being paid that because they come to the workforce with no skills, and this makes it harder for them to acquire the skills they need in order to climb that ladder successfully,” he said.
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