Former Harvard Bell Fellow Clemens Noelke is an author on a study (at the center of this piece in The New York Times) that has found that Amazon, by raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, has influenced other local companies to raise wages, and has found little evidence of job loss.
Amazon puts the pressure on local companies to raise wages too
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