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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by seibelj on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:03PM (#17439067)
My point is that this is not a city to use in any argument. Their situation is so unique as to be irrelevant to any aggregate statistic.
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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by empath75 on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:26PM (#17439144)
It’s a worst case scenario for property values and they’re still going up. That’s a perfectly valid example.
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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by seibelj on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:36PM (#17439187)
Maybe they went to zero during the crisis and then went up? If they went down, perfectly valid to ignore them, no? I think we should exclude extreme examples in these debates. The data backing the arguments up are random at best
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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by TomMckenny on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @08:32PM (#17454602)
They did not go to zero. They did not even go as low as 2009. The water crises started in Apr 2014 resulting in a brief drop of typical sized followed immediately next quarter by a record breaking rise to record high prices even though sales were low before it.

http://www.city-data.com/housing/houses-Flint-Michigan.html

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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by megy on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:54AM (#17439580)
Well sure, it makes it easier to ignore depending on the point you are trying to make.
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