There’s just no evidence that raising the minimum wage costs jobs, at least when the starting point is as low as it is in modern America."

"Until the Card-Krueger study, most economists, myself included, assumed that raising the minimum wage would have a clear negative effect on employment," Krugman confesses. "But they found, if anything, a positive effect. Their result has since been confirmed using data from many episodes.

Of course, republicans would literally kill everyone on earth (global warming) rather than implement evidence based policy.