Arin Dube

So that's kind of the way we can think about how the minimum wage actually gets absorbed.

Um,

Most people tend to sort of support having a higher minimum wage when understanding these are some of the trade-offs that we may face.

What do you think is the next step here?

It's certainly the case that there's that lack of wage growth is a big part of the affordability crisis.

And so finding ways of raising wages is key.

And that's why I wrote the book.

And one of the pillars that I argue

is exactly raising the minimum wage.

The other one, by the way, is full employment, which also plays a very important role in helping giving more leverage to workers.

But when we think about raising the minimum wage, at this point, the federal minimum wage has been stagnant, like we said, for 17 years.

it is absolutely critical that we do raise it.

You know, it's actually, it's something that there's a broad base of support in this country for doing this.

And the problem is really in Washington.

And so, of course, we can keep raising more state minimums.

That is something that, you know, I think we'll probably continue to see efforts.

But at the end of the day, you know,

Not all states, you can actually put this on the ballot.

And sometimes there's, you know, different factors that affect what kind of what legislatures are going to do.

And this is why it's really critical for the federal government to do its job and actually have a minimum wage.