Yet while the American economy is creating jobs, it is not creating enough good jobs. Solutions will have to go far beyond raising the minimum wage. The job growth will continue to be in services, as it has been for a generation, with good jobs going to those with good skills, and low-paying and insecure jobs going to those without them. What can be doneOne popular response is to boost the minimum wage. A recent careful statistical analysis of Seattle's new minimum wage law (rising in two steps to $11 and then $13 an hour) is sobering.

Source: CNN July 07, 2017 16:30 UTC