Push for higher minimum wage ignites worry about enforcement

Monday, August 10, 2015

NEW YORK -- As a campaign to raise the minimum wage as high as $15 has achieved victories in such places as Seattle, Los Angeles and New York, it has bumped up against a harsh reality: Plenty of scofflaw businesses don't pay the legal minimum now and probably won't pay the new, higher wages, either.

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