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Re:The rich are hoarding economic growth by gehwartzen on Sunday August 20, 2017 @07:50PM (#15060902)
We need to just peg the minimum wage to inflation so we don't have to do this every decade or two.
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Re:The rich are hoarding economic growth by matt_wulfeck on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:04PM (#15060978)
Ugh yeah. I'm glad I'm not the only one that hates this generalized fight for a number that's ultimately irrelevant.
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Re:The rich are hoarding economic growth by helthanatos on Sunday August 20, 2017 @07:58PM (#15060947)
Minimum wage++ == Inflation++
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Re:The rich are hoarding economic growth by jaggederest on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:17PM (#15061035)
Except that they've tracked that, and it doesn't. There was a nice recent natural experiment in Seattle, and the effect was negligible.

Do you have any empirical evidence otherwise?

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