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A few weeks earlier, during the minimum-wage debate (in which small business was once again singled out for favored tax treatment), virtually every opponent argued that raising the minimum wage could hurt small businesses--which create most of America's jobs.
The New Yorker excerpts former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's insider memoir, Locked in the Cabinet . Reich recalls the minimum-wage fight, bemoans the influence of Wall Street on the federal budget, and fantasizes a conversation with Alan Greenspan that ends with the Fed chairman calling him a "Bolshevik dwarf."
Trouble is, we already have such a tax credit--it just got renewed as part of the minimum-wage bill, and it's a proven failure.
Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted "nay" on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.
An article explains why businesses are not opposing a proposed minimum-wage hike.