claim: "every time we've increased the minimum wage, we've seen a growth in jobs."
author: ben cardin
evidence_1: may 6, 2016 ... we have been raising the minimum wage for 78 years, and as a new study ... of  job-growth trends 12 months after each minimum-wage increase." ... 1938, total  year-over-year employment actually increased 68% of the time.
evidence_2: nov 10, 2015 ... every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people ... time we' ve increased the minimum wage, we've seen a growth in jobs.
evidence_3: oct 5, 2016 ... smith's implication is that we have never run a minimum wage experiment before  and ... the federal minimum wage has been raised 22 times since it was first ... of  job growth trends twelve months after each minimum-wage increase. ..... but if the  99 percent of americans who have seen their real incomes ...
evidence_4: jul 25, 2017 ... what if the weak productivity growth of the last several years is not the cause of  low ... maybe we've been thinking about the productivity slump all wrong ...  sam walton perfects the just-in-time supply chain. ... minimum wage and job  loss: one alarming seattle study is not the last word july 20, 2017 ...
evidence_5: jul 26, 2016 ... we've been debating the effects of raising the minimum wage for some time ...  the city's job-growth rate has been triple the national average, for example. ...  pay for low-wage workers climbed more in real seattle than in synthetic .... wage  from all the other regional trends seen over the same time period.