Op-Ed by Jeff Furman
Chair of the Board of Directors, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc
Huffington Post, Jan. 10, 2013

With working families in New York still struggling to make ends meet in this sluggish economic recovery, Albany lawmakers should consider a full range of policies to create jobs and boost economic growth when the new legislative session begins in January. For the sake of New York's lowest-paid workers -- and for the countless businesses across the state whose sales are shrinking because too many consumers cannot afford basic expenses -- raising New York's minimum wage must be the very first order of business. ...

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