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To: RandFan
"For example, in 2017, ...a University of Washington study was released that proved damaging to the supporters of a higher hourly rate..."


Followed by: "Yet just a few years later, a study ..."


Failed to mention that the 2nd study was done in 2020. Of course raising the minimum wage didn't harm jobs because the unemployment rate was already sky high from the combination of the lockdowns and the gubment paying people to avoid work. So obviously businesses had to raise wages to get people to work. Any other time and forced wage raises by broke gubment would be harmful to jobs.

5 posted on 06/15/2021 11:55:41 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Not to mention that if you look at the entire working population, it’s easier for the harm of a minimum wage hike - which falls mostly om lower-wage workers - to get lost in the noise of other factors.

Studies that really want to know whether minimum wage hikes raise unemployment focus on those lower-wage workers ... and a hefty majority of such studies find there is a rise in unemployment.


11 posted on 06/15/2021 12:29:44 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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