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| Evidence Mounts: Minimum Wage Hikes Cost Jobs |
| 2016-02-09 |
 The evidence continues to mount that minimum wage hikes have economic costs: A Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco review paper recently found that minimum wages had “directly reduced the number of jobs nationally by about 100,000 to 200,000.” And now a new survey of recent data by Jed Graham of Investor’s Business Daily (h/t RCP) found that minimum wage hikes seem to have taken a toll on hiring in some of America’s major metropolitan areas: |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #4 Making it illegal for American workers to compete in the global market. Damn, they wanted that global market soooooo bad! |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-02-09 16:16 |
| #3 and yet our liberal gay Democrat SD Councilman Todd Gloria just got an increase with mandatory paid sick days on the June Ballot: "Vote with your hearts, not your heads! Math is hard!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-02-09 09:00 |
| #2 US15.0 Minimum Wage = JOBS FOR ROBOTS, NOT HUMANS. SUPPORT THE MACHINE = ROBO-REVOLUTION, YOU CAN DATE + MARRY YOUR ROBOTS! Oh wait ... ["I, ROBOT" here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-09 00:41 |
| #1 Because it isn't about you being able to work. It is about "fairness". Stand in the bread line now like a good little comrade while your betters eat caviar. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-02-09 00:33 |