claim: raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour "will destroy between half a million and one million jobs."
author: mitch mcconnell
evidence_1: aug 7, 2015 ... we are in the middle of one of those delightful mass delusions to which ... to try to  make $15 an hour the national minimum wage for the us. 6.6 million, yes, that's  6,600,000 jobs will be lost. ... earning between $7.25 and $10.10 getting a raise,  ... raising the minimum wage will create jobs, not kill them!
evidence_2: oct 14, 2014 ... the minimum wage is one area where democratic challenger alison ... raising  the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "would help lift over a million ... says "you  will destroy between half a million and 1 million jobs (by raising ...
evidence_3: apr 1, 2014 ... that bill would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour over two and a  half ... even though it will destroy jobs for some low-wage workers and harm job  creation. ... by about 500,000 workers -- and by as many as one million. ... about  half of all minimum wage workers are less than 25 years old.
evidence_4: raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour in wisconsin ... for over half a  million wisconsin workers. ... increases, 587,000 workers —over one-in-five  workers in the state – would ... increasing the minimum wage does not “kill jobs.
evidence_5: feb 22, 2014 ... the cbo says that increasing the minimum wage would eliminate half a million  jobs. but economists say it would eliminate few if any jobs. ... in part, this is a  dispute between analysis and observation. cbo is ... does that mean a minimum -wage increase will never eliminate jobs? .... 3 hours 32 min ago.