Watch This CNN Anchor Stop The Spin On The Minimum Wage

CNN’s Carol Costello shot down conservative talking points disparaging the minimum wage, correctly noting that raising it would increase incomes and decrease poverty.

On February 18, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released estimates of the economic impacts of proposals to lift the minimum wage to $9.00 and $10.10, respectively. Among the report’s summary conclusions was the revelation that the $10.10 option would raise the wages of 16.5 million workers while lifting…