Under these inflationary pressures many of the industries and small businesses employing marginally trained or unskilled workers will be forced to cut back on the number of those employees or go out of business. The very worker that the Federal minimum wage was intended to aid will find himself out of work.
Mickey Edwards (R-OK), speaking to the House of Representatives : H.R. 3744—Minimum Wage Bill. Congressional Record, page H12268.
Tuesday, April 26, 1977
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