Dino on Minimum Wage:

Claim: Dino wants to lower the minimum wage for working adults by $1.50.  

Fact:  Rossi actually supports a stair-step training wage that would only apply to youth 18 years and under.

When asked at the AWB debate if he would support a stair-step training wage, which would begin at $1.50 less than the minimum wage and then ramp up from there, Rossi said:

“Would I be open to some of these ideas? You bet, especially a training wage. You think about how many young people are being cheated out of their first job. Getting the idea of going to work, fulfilling a task and being paid for it. That’s a very good thing. Work ethic is something very good to instill in our youth and letting them have that opportunity. But when minimum wage gets so high that that job isn’t worth that much to the employer, you don’t get that first job.

“Minimum wage is really your first job. Not many people stay at minimum wage. Not very long. It’s not meant to be a family wage. But it’s meant to be an entry level wage. I think it should be looked at as such.”

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