David Flemming: Misjudging the impact of a $15 minimum wage

Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Flemming, a policy analyst at the Ethan Allen Institute.Recently, Raise the Wage Coalition member Nathan Suter wrote a commentary entitled “Economic Evidence Points to Broad Benefits of a $15 Minimum Wage.” The commentary makes several dubious claims in support of Vermont raising the minimum wage to $15/hour. To make his case, Suter relies on four Berkeley studies, one of which was subjected to political interference by the pro-minimum