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Weighing the merits of raising the minimum wage

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published February 26, 2014 at 6:00 AM CST
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Dr. Dale Funderburk
Texas A&M University-Commerce

Texas A&M University-Commerce professor ofeconomicsDr. Dale Funderburk says raising the minimum wage has the very visible effect of helping many people immediately, but the longer term effects --  which he believes include fewer jobs in the economy -- are harder to see and measure.

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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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