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Maybe you should read the article. They're quoting from "Assunta Ng, publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly"

http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2014/05/blog-seatac-tells-us-15...

This argument really needs to stop. 89% of minimum wage workers do not live in poor households. (see my Marginal Revolution citation on this page). It's extremely misleading to insinuate otherwise.

"A 2011 study by Sen, Rybczynski, and Van De Waal found that "a 10% increase in the minimum wage is significantly correlated with a 3−5% drop in teen employment."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Research_subsequen...

That is a trite and misleading argument. 89% of minimum wage workers don't live in poor households. To say that they are being subsidized because they are poor is simply dishonest. See my link above.

That is wrong. Minimum wage workers are not in dire poverty.

"Only 11.3% of workers who will gain from an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9.50 per hour live in poor households."

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/01/how...