Summary: <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Although </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">widespread retail-worker strikes failed to enact a rise of the federal minimum wage in 2013, on the state level, the tide is turning. <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Last week 13 states started the New Year by raised their minimum wage, and as many as 11 states, and Washington, D.C., are considering passing similar legislation in 2014.</span> <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To shed light on the evolving public debate surrounding wage gaps in the US we are revisiting a debate we staged last Spring “Abolish the Minimum Wage.” That evening J</span><span style="">ames Dorn of the Cato Institute and popular economist Russ Roberts argued for the motion, and faced Jared Bernstein from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Karen Kornbluh, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><p></p></span></span></p>
