"Increasing prices of groceries would harm those who are food insecure or those living with lack of access to fresh healthy food," Ruth Whittaker, the group's director of civic innovation policy, told the Council's Consumer and Worker Protection Committee.
Council Member Sandy Nurse (D-Brooklyn) mocked the claim that paying workers a fair wage would harm low income New Yorkers. "The idea that providing fair, living wages for workers harms food insecure New Yorkers is an absurd and thoughtless statement backed by zero evidence."
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