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I Believe The Minimum Wage Should Be Increased

Y'all will be glad to know that the dire predictions of massive job loss after enacting the $15 minimum wage, are diametrically wrong:

http://ritholtz.com/2016/12/seattle-min-wage-update/

Instead, a new low in unemployment in Seattle (data courtesy Ritholtz Wealth Management)

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Makemeluvit · 36-40, F

Seattle is not a great sample demographic regardless- I love Seattle but it's not at all representative of a majority of the country's economy

firefall · 61-69, M

Not claiming it is - this is simple a piece of evidence (yet another) that increasing minimum wages has little effect on employment, contra the ridiculous and extravagant claims that were made quite specifically about the Seattle $15 minimum wage bump