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Socialism, Seattle Style - Kshama Sawant's $15 per hour job killer
American Spectator ^ | May 7, 2014 | Keli Carender

Posted on 05/07/2014 5:19:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Study on Minimum Wage increase referenced in the article.

Are the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases Always Small? New Evidence from a Case Study of New York State
21 posted on 05/07/2014 8:28:58 AM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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Thanks!


22 posted on 05/07/2014 1:16:53 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: all the best
The real problem is that at $15 an hour, the entry level young unskilled worker will be displaced by older, better educated and more mature workers who wouldn't work at a job for 7.50$ but will readily for 15$.
23 posted on 05/07/2014 4:44:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: envisio
It's not that she doesn’t know about economics. Liberals know the ramifications of this type stuff.

She may not know. Marxists generally do not believe in economics. With central planning and a command economy, they actually believe they can transcend the laws of human nature, which in the end is all that economics is.

24 posted on 05/07/2014 4:50:03 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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