they hoped to improve
Wish and hope in one hand and...
They might conclude from studies what someone with basic reasoning skills would conclude in a couple of minutes. Or they could just ignore the studies, or cherry-pick the ones they like.
This will change nothing.
Facts and figures are superfluous.
The uneducated know nothing of economics and couldn’t care less.
All the liberals want is their votes, and that is bought with pipe dreams and promises..........
1. the government does not have the right to set a minimum or maximum hourly rate.
2. if it is raised, it will soon not be enough, and the left will agitate to raise it again, and that will not be enough, and they will push to raise it again, ..... repeat until doomsday.
With all the revision of history taking place I wonder how valid that quote is today.
Every discussion about raising minimum wage never mentions the obvious impact:
Existing Pay Structure:
Fry-dropper $10/hr
Shift Manager $15/hr
Proposed Pay Structure:
Fry-dropper $15/hr
Shift Manager quits or demands raise
Lesson: All positions would have to increase pay. Duh!
Cool music to accompany History repeating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8
A report pointing out some basic economic reality? Time to call the authors racist and sexist.
A tip of the hat to a cross state rival. lol
That was the council's mistake, should've gone to Cal Berkeley for their study.
Many restaurants here in Tucson have closed due to our increased minimum wage. My favorite NY deli was one of them.
Union workers peg their wage scales (in their contracts) to the minimum wage. I'm sure they are VERY happy in areas where the minimum wage has gone up...
...and couldn't care less about the poor saps who have lost their jobs.
Hardly. Facts - things like the laws of economics - have never mattered to liberals. Their reality, like their gender, is what they want it to be at any given moment.
Witness the study from Sweden that demonstrates conclusively that the manufacturing of massive lithium-ion batteries (like the ones used in Teslas) produces more carbon dioxide than the average conventional automobile produces in eight years. Another independent study done by an energy firm in Texas demonstrates that, not only has fracking had NO impact whatsoever on drinking water, fracking has actually reduced carbon dioxide emissions. You’ll never hear a peep from the lamestream media on either story, but they’ll continue to bang the global warming/climate change drum until we’re deaf.
It’s working exactly as planned. Watch for them to want to raise it again some time soon.
‘Experts cautioned the effects of the minimum wage may vary according to the industries dominant in the cities where they are implemented along with overall economic conditions in the country as a whole’
When experts start putting their names to their conclusions, then I might give them more credibility. I am truly fed up with claims like ‘all economists’, ‘experts dispute’, ‘experts say’, etc. I want to know WHO is claiming the Leftist agenda is correct and good. If they will not out themselves, they deserve no attention.
Fixed it for the newspeak.
-PJ
“...Yet according to a major new study that could force economists to reassess past research on the issue, the hike has had the opposite effect.”
I’d like to know the name of any economist who thought this was going to work. You learn in basic economics that raising the price of anything will cause the consumer of that good/service to use less.