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$15 Minimum Wage Blasted By Think Tank

September 4, 2015

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A right-wing think tank headed by Richard Berman, known as “Dr. Evil” by friend and foe alike according to The Guardian, has put up a billboard in Times Square, featuring a slacker with headphones wearing a baseball cap, and the caption: “Who needs an education or hard work when Gov Cuomo is raising the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour?” The Guardian reports that Berman’s “Employment Policy Institute” paid $100,000 for the ad, as a response to New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s initiative to pay fast-food workers $15 an hour by 2018.

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