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Modest can be measured in the amount of
income subject received that the effort to

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increase the minimum wage in Maryland is
gathering support every politician running

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for office is advocating an increase in the
minimum wage no more the vast majority

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of economists believe the minimum wage
laws cost the economy thousands of jobs so

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why are we going to raise the minimum
wage or Marilyn Well because it's

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a feel good exercise it really as you said
is bad economics under Martin O'Malley

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the unemployment rate has doubled and
the number of unemployed has doubled we

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haven't created private sector jobs and
no one so why would we expect to continue

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to create new private sector
jobs this is going to be

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a devastating impact on frankly not poor
people as much as people who are starting

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out in their careers who haven't been trained
who haven't been in the workforce who

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need

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a job that's at the bottom along and then
they could move up from there OK so than

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some argue that the
minimum wage shouldn't be

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a priest that it should be abolished what
do you think. Will be asked me if the

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minimum wage should be policy it's just

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a stupid question to ask Casey but let's
go back to nine hundred sixty three at the

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Martin Luther King March the minimum
wage was then two dollars if it were in

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today's dollars First same buying power
fifteen dollars the federal minimum wage is

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less than half of this let's fast forward
to Ronald Reagan's time in the office if

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we were to have the same buying power
with minimum wage under Ronald Reagan you

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would be in nine dollars hands what is

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a short but you're not much you are not
you have not survive on seven dollars and

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twenty five cents an hour they cannot how
can there is no way unless you have four

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or five jobs and you ignore everything else
can you survive on seven hundred twenty

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but.