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Old 05-08-2017, 07:08 AM   #129
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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF! View Post
The $15 minimum wage would scare me too. There's enough evidence now that shows it's a bad idea.
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Why raising the minimum wage in Seattle did little to help workers, according to a new study



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...gs-in-seattle/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...=.6ca7a8d9cfdb

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Putting aside for a moment the critical question of whether these changes are actually meaningful in a statistical sense, these outcomes fit comfortably into a view well understood by minimum-wage advocates and increasingly accepted by economists: most increases have their intended effect of lifting the pay of low-wage workers with little in the way of job losses.
The myth of the minimum wage being a job killing policy is perpetuated by business'

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