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Monday, February 10, 2014

Fight Over Minimum Wage Illustrates Web of Industry Ties - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — Just four blocks from the White House is the headquarters of the Employment Policies Institute, a widely quoted economic research center whose academic reports have repeatedly warned that increasing the minimum wage could be harmful, increasing poverty and unemployment.

But something fundamental goes unsaid in the institute’s reports: The nonprofit group is run by a public relations firm that also represents the restaurant industry, as part of a tightly coordinated effort to defeat the minimum wage increase that the White House and Democrats in Congress have pushed for.




Fight Over Minimum Wage Illustrates Web of Industry Ties - NYTimes.com

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