Practicing Summary and Paraphrase

This blog post is going to identify and show examples of the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing.

This quote's original source is from the New York Times article, The Minimum Wage: How Much is too Much.

Original Source: 

I am confident that a federal minimum wage that rises to around $12 an hour over the next five years or so would not have a meaningful negative effect on United States employment. One reason for this judgment is that around 140 research projects commissioned by Britain’s independent Low Pay Commission have found that the minimum wage “has led to higher than average wage increases for the lowest paid, with little evidence of adverse effects on employment or the economy.” A $12­per­hour minimum wage in the United States phased in over several years would be in the same ballpark as Britain’s minimum wage today.

My Paraphrase of the Original Source:

Krueger states that the United States phasing in a $12/ hour federal minimum wage over the course of several years would be similar to studies done by Britain researchers. Britain's independent Low Pay Commission did many studies to show that raising the minimum wage has given lower paying jobs and increase in a wage, but does not have a negative effect in the employment or the economy. This is why Krueger is confident that raising the minimum wage in the US would not effect the employment significantly.

My Summary of the Original Source:

Comparing the US' minimum wage increase to the studies done in Britain, Krueger is confident that raising the minimum wage to $12/ hour will not have significant effects to the employment or economy.