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Chris Rickert: Dissing the poor and the high cost of low-wage work

There?s a case to make that raising the minimum wage will hurt the people it?s supposed to help. If you go above $9 or $10 an hour, said Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, employers start cutting jobs. They also might start automating jobs out of existence.