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Re:Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about g... by methodover on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:42PM (#21359515)
There are more ways to measure the health of the American worker than the BLS' unemployment rate. What about other statistics? Things like like...

- Wage growth over time - Health outcomes - Savings rate - Credit card debt rate - Feelings about the future (are we on the right track/wrong track?)

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Re:Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about g... by harryh on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:47PM (#21359564)
OPs comment asserted that developed world workers were being hurt specifically because of the combination of free trade and a minimum wage caused unemployment. My comment was refuting that specific argument.

The stats you mention are interesting but not relevant to OPs assertion that a wage floor in developed nations was problematic in a free trade world.

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