PayScale News: Who Wants to Raise the Minimum Wage? The Answer May Surprise You
By Leah Arnold-Smeets
PayScale, Jan 28, 2014
... Small business owners are in favor of raising minimum wage because it will put “more money in the pockets of those in their communities,” according to an interview by Secretary Tom Perez for the US Department of Labor. One of those small business owners is Amanda Rothschild who owns a small café in Baltimore, and she justifies the wage increase.
“Our training costs would be significantly higher if we paid lower wages and we had the kind of turnover that you typically see in a restaurant,” she explains...