A year later $15 Seattle Min. Wage Shows "Little or No Evidence" of Price Increases

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I think raising the min wage does little to nothing to address the problem.

Getting rid of min wage and instituting a
basic income(negative income tax preferably) is a better option IMO...
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No I'm saying blacks are being priced out of places where the min wage is being raised.

We arent doing great anywhere in America.
That was not your argument when we were first discussing MW raises
this is the most retarded moving of the goal post ever
we gonna stay on track though and keep tossing you
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Its economic, but the downside to these proposed "fixes" always disproportionately affect blacks.

if raising the min wage results in any loss of jobs, blacks will feel it the most.
Again, that has nothing to do with minimum wage itself. If someone doesn't want to hire black people they don't need minimum wage as an excuse to do it :yeshrug:

I have seen this plenty of times. Libertarians try to reach across the aisle by making spurious connections between progressive policies and progressive issues like racism. Sorry breh, not jumping for it, try smarter.
 

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Again, that has nothing to do with minimum wage itself. If someone doesn't want to hire black people they don't need minimum wage as an excuse to do it :yeshrug:

I have seen this plenty of times. Libertarians try to reach across the aisle by making spurious connections between progressive policies and progressive issues like racism. Sorry breh, not jumping for it, try smarter.
Race is intertwined in everything in this country breh. Its inescapable.

Raising the min wage reduces the number of low skilled positions available, this disproportionately hurts blacks for a number of reasons.
 

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Race is intertwined in everything in this country breh. Its inescapable.

Raising the min wage reduces the number of low skilled positions available, this disproportionately hurts blacks for a number of reasons.
Post some data to back this up. Specifically, that higher minimum wage = disproportionately higher job losses for blacks. I stopped giving your "assumptions" the benefit of the doubt years ago.
 

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Post some data to back this up. Specifically, that higher minimum wage = disproportionately higher job losses for blacks. I stopped giving your "assumptions" the benefit of the doubt years ago.
Aside from the well known fact that my "assertion" was the basis for the laws creation in the first place, heres a good study on the issue.


By taking advantage of the “natural experiment” created by the substantial interstate variation in the minimum wage between 1994 and 2010, and carefully controlling for labor market and demographic differences, the authors provide conclusive answers to the crucial policy question of whether wage mandates have a disparate impact on minority groups.
https://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/even_5-2011.pdf


And while the large majority of those pushing for an increase in the minimum wage have good intentions, the results are terrible for African Americans. Much like rent controls, increasing the minimum wage reduces the price of discrimination by creating a surplus of laborers for employers to choose from.
 

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Race is intertwined in everything in this country breh. Its inescapable.

Raising the min wage reduces the number of low skilled positions available, this disproportionately hurts blacks for a number of reasons.
not true. and if you believe its true.. i need those receipts.(the race part is true but the rest. not so much)
 

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Aside from the well known fact that my "assertion" was the basis for the laws creation in the first place, heres a good study on the issue.


By taking advantage of the “natural experiment” created by the substantial interstate variation in the minimum wage between 1994 and 2010, and carefully controlling for labor market and demographic differences, the authors provide conclusive answers to the crucial policy question of whether wage mandates have a disparate impact on minority groups.
https://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/even_5-2011.pdf


And while the large majority of those pushing for an increase in the minimum wage have good intentions, the results are terrible for African Americans. Much like rent controls, increasing the minimum wage reduces the price of discrimination by creating a surplus of laborers for employers to choose from.
listen, there's no reason to even bring this up as a thing. you know why? because making crumbs isnt better than not making crumbs living off of welfare. it really isnt.

So i would rather broke black folks get on welfare than to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week for crumbs, where they cant even really pay rent and dont get a flat tire. its a wrap. rents unpaid, lights going off. ....

see i'm not of the school of thought that says anything is better than nothing. naw bruh. BS is worse than nothing sometimes.

The truth is. minimum wage is not meant to save everyone or make everything all well. but it is ONE part of the whole.

STOP RACISM
RAISE MINIMUM WAGE
Give people their legit raises back since we're producing a lot more.
Develop more affordable housing(most people can't afford luxury condos/apts)
Make Junior Colleges tuition free, and state college tuition free.

even though i know they wont do #1, i still take 2, 3, 4, and 5. and it wont help all black folks but it will help a lot of us. i'll tell you that much.
 
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