Seattle’s higher minimum wage is actually working fine

Re:Seattle’s higher minimum wage is actually working fine by ori_b on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @03:10PM (#14657272)

This is a very different situation. There is still a huge amount of debate about the actual effects of minimum wage increases. This is not the case for vaccines any more. At this point, the evidence for vaccines is strong enough that pro-vaccine should be the default position. This is not (yet) the case for raising the minimum wage.

As a result, ideological biases are important to flag, and studies possibly affected by bias need to be replicated and cross checked.

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Re:Seattle’s higher minimum wage is actually working fine by apexalpha on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:24AM (#14663532)

>There is still a huge amount of debate about the actual effects of minimum wage increases.

There is? I would seem that the effects could simply be drawn from real world results in any other developed nation.

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Re:Seattle’s higher minimum wage is actually working fine by ori_b on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:40PM (#14664654)

You mean the comparisons showing the USA had one of the lowest unemployment rates?

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