Executive Council Statement
Attack on Working Americans
… most generally affected by minimum wage increases. Therise in employment could not, however, be credited to thesubminimum training wages, enacted as part of the 1989 bill. TheLabor Department found that only 5 percent of businesses even usedthe … providing any real alternative. There is noconsideration of policies to achieve full employment; there are nonew job training funds; there are no safeguards that subsidizedtemporary work assignments would not replace already existing jobs. …