M.V. Lee Badgett: Economic model shows that raising minimum wage to $15/hr would reduce poverty significantly for male and female same-sex couples

 M.V. Lee Badgett, economics, says she recently ran an economic model that showed that raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour would reduce poverty by one third for male same-sex couples and by nearly half for female same-sex couples. She says, “As a policy strategy, it would make a big difference.” (NBC News, 10/3/16)