<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/59999a9e-4990-4874-a0a6-dfdb376b37d5/B2ACE316-7C09-44CA-A0F6-D72640C65DAB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090006" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090006" style="font-size: 11px;">mediamatters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090006"><H4>Summary: In his latest column, Rich Lowry wrote that "[t]he effect" of a Democratic proposal to raise the federal minimum wage "basically will be to give a small boost to the wage of teenagers working summers or after school." In fact, the Economic Policy Institute found that 71 percent of those who would be "directly affected" by the Democratic minimum-wage proposal are age 20 or over.</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090006"><P>In his January 5 <A title="This external link will open in a new window" target="_new" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2I4NjljZTlmODU5YzM4NjVlN2NjYzhkOWI2NzVlZWE=">column</A>, <I>National Review</I> editor Rich Lowry, repeated a much-circulated myth that "[t]he effect" of a Democratic <A title="This external link will open in a new window" target="_new" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=257236&">proposal</A> to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour "basically will be to give a small boost to the wage of teenagers working summers or after school." As <I>Media Matters for America</I> <A title="This external link will open in a new window" target="_new" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200611210006">noted</A>, according to the <A title="This external link will open in a new window" target="_new" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.epinet.org/issueguides/minwage/table1.pdf">Economic Policy Institute</A> (EPI), a majority -- 71 percent -- of those who would be "directly affected" * by the Democratic minimum-wage proposal are age 20 or over.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B2ACE316-7C09-44CA-A0F6-D72640C65DAB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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