US minimum wage hike ‘would increase deficit by $54bn over a decade’

12 Feb 21

US president Joe Biden’s plan to raise the minimum wage in the US would lift nearly one million people out of poverty, but would also result in a large increase to the budget deficit, a government agency has said.

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