What about the Wall Street Journal?As a 1995 paper in the Journal of Economics Literature put it, “There is a long history of empirical studies attempting to pin down the effects of minimum wages, with limited success.” No one found significant employment losses when President Truman raised the minimum wage by 87% in 1950. When Congress raised the minimum wage by 28% in two steps in 1967, businesses predicted large employment losses and price increases. As the Wall Street Journal reported six months later, “Employment and prices show little effect from $1.40-an-hour guarantee.”
Economic research supports raising the minimum wage Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute is a very left leaning organization. You have to take it with a grain of salt the same way you'd take the American Enterprise Institute from the right with a grain of salt.
There are times when raising the min wage might have minimal impact...but during a weak recovery like this, it's a bad time to do it.
Is that a "left leaning organization" as well?
Republicans long for the days of slavery in the Old South.