Read the claim. The government should raise the minimum wage.
Read the counter claim.
According to a study by the American Enterprise Institute,
raising the minimum wage will result in employers cutting
their employees' hours and cutting some jobs altogether.
What is the most effective way to address the counterclaim?
The Economic Policy Institute shows that raising the
minimum wage will grow the economy so that actually
there will be one hundred thousand new jobs.
In fact, the research shows that the poorest workers will
suffer the most because their jobs are the most likely to
be eliminated by employers.
While struggling to get by on minimum wage can be
challenging, think about how it would feel to lose your job
and not have any income at all.
Meanwhile, more than 70% of the people affected by a
minimum wage change will be families who make less
than $60,000 in a year.