Originally Posted By: Redrum
I have a feeling $15 would result in a lot of layoffs and jobs closings.


Except the paper I cited shows there's no correlation between state minimum wage laws and unemployment. None. You can feel whatever you want, but at some point we have to speak in empirical terms, not what we feel.

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While raising minimum wage sounds good, when the free market is messed with the results usually are not good.


Should we get rid of the minimum wage altogether, then? What about child labor laws?
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