Kyle Taylor<p>Unpacking "Wage increases = inflation"</p><p>...The weight of that evidence shows that (when the) minimum wage increases, they raise the wages of our lowest wage-workers, they reduce inequality, they reduce poverty, they reduce child poverty, they reduce gender wage gaps, they reduce racial wage gaps because Black and brown workers, due to the broad impacts of structural racism on our labor markets, are disproportionately concentrated in the lowest-wage jobs...</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/epi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epi</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://econtwitter.net/@epi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>epi</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/twenty-two-states-will-increase-their-minimum-wages-on-january-1-raising-pay-for-nearly-10-million-workers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">epi.org/blog/twenty-two-states</span><span class="invisible">-will-increase-their-minimum-wages-on-january-1-raising-pay-for-nearly-10-million-workers/</span></a></p>