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This week on CounterSpin: Republican presidential candidates disagreed on many things, but when it came to the idea of raising the minimum wage, they were in concert: It would be a “disaster,” increase joblessness and knock us out of international competition. Media usually present the issue as one of workers vs. business, but that’s not the whole story. We’ll get a different angle from Holly Sklar of the national network called Business for a Fair Minimum Wage.

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Also on the show: Transparency and accountability — principles we’d hope would be paramount in the workings of state governments. But a new assessment called the State Integrity Investigation shows they are actually in short supply. We’ll learn the extent of the problem and what journalists can do about it from the Investigation’s project manager, reporter Nicholas Kusnetz of the Center for Public Integrity.

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As usual, we take a quick look back at the week’s press, including factchecking Netanyahu, 60 Minutes vs. whistleblowers, and blaming technology for government repression.

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