It is no surprise that Samantha Summers insists a $15 minimum wage hike is detrimental to the workers. The Employment Policies Institute is a very conservative organization, and one of several front groups created by Berman & Companies. Berman & Companies lobbies for restaurants, hotels, alcohol, and tobacco industries.
They own two domains, LivingWage.com and MinimumWage.com, which portray the idea of a living wage as some kind of insidious conspiracy, according to SourceWatch.org.