Liberals are really pushing raising the minimum wage for 2014.: Thirty states: have put forward bills[3]: to increase it, and Democrats have made this issue: part of their political strategy: [4]for this year. : Yet, a: new study[5]from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) has exposed the proponents of raising the minimum wage of their “hypocrisy.”: It seems that: 96% of Democrats: [6]who support such measures don’t pay their interns.
The abstract of the EPI study noted that “the same Members of Congress who are supporting a 40% wage hike on private sector employers are simultaneously failing to provide any wages to their own employee interns.”