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Minimum Wages: Leaving a bad taste
最低工資：留下了壞印象
Higher minimum wages may force bad restaurants out of business.
愈高的最低工資可能使糟糕的餐館倒閉。
With Republicans in charge in Washington, the federal minimum wage is unlikely to alter soon.
由于共和黨在華盛頓執政，聯邦最低工資就不可能很快更改了。
But debate over the impact of local pay floors is as hot as ever.
但對當地最低工資的影響的爭論和以往一樣火熱。
Little wonder: 18 states and 22 cities and counties raised their minimum wages at the start of 2017, according to the National Employment Law Project, a campaign group.
難怪，根據國家就業法項目，即一個運動組織，18個州和22個城市和鄉鎮在2017年初調高了他們的最低工資。
Left-wing activists have for years pushed politicians to guarantee minimum pay of $15 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum of $7.25, which last went up in 2009.
左翼活動分子多年來一直敦促政治家保證最低工資為每小時15美元，這是聯邦最低限額每小時7.25美元的兩倍多，聯邦在2009上升了。
A new working paper by Dara Lee Luca of Mathematica Policy Research and Michael Luca of Harvard Business School looks at the impact of higher minimum wages from a new angle.
數學政策研究公司的Dara Lee Luca與哈佛商學院的Michael Luca 一起做的一個新的工作報告從新的角度的影響看待調高的最低工資。
Traditionally, scholars have focused on whether or not minimum wages reduce employment.
傳統上，學者們關注的是最低工資是否減少就業。
But the Lucas asked something else: does it force firms out of business?
但是Lucas 問了另外一個問題：它是否迫使企業破產？
In particular, they looked at the restaurant industry—about half of minimum-wage workers toil over food—in the San Francisco Bay Area, which contains 15 of the 41 cities and counties that have changed their minimum wages since 2012.
特別是，他們關注了餐館業—大約一半的最低工資工人在舊金山灣地區辛辛苦苦維持生計，其中包含自2012起，已改變了他們的最低工資的41個城市和鄉鎮中的15個。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
