According to a new report by Dr. Roy Cordato, “Basic economics says that wages are tied to worker productivity. Forcing employers to pay ‘one dollar more’ would also force them to turn away more unskilled workers who couldn’t be productive enough to earn one dollar more.” This comes in response to State Treasurer Richard Moore’s “One Dollar More” campaign to raise the minimum wage. Both the Garner News and the Kinston Free Press ran Roy’s critique of Moore’s fallacious thinking.
