Amazon Wants $15 Federal Minimum Wage; Reports: Small Businesses Would Be Hardest Hit

The corporate behemoth Amazon is taking out full-page ads urging the federal government to raise the federal minimum wage, forcing small businesses to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour, a prospect that would do further damage to already precarious smaller businesses.

Amazon, which already pays its employees a minimum of $15 an hour, urges the federal government to force that pay scale on its smaller competitors, in full-page newspaper ads. pic.twitter.com/7mIxLvl5dJ