Claim: A Congressional Budget Office report says President Barack Obama's executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract workers "will cost the economy 500,000 jobs."
Fact-check: 'Marketplace' host Kai Ryssdal talks CBO report on minimum wage and lost jobs
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Katie Sanders
Date published: 2014-02-20T00:00:00