The minimum wage debate shows just how many people are clinging to oversimplified models and ignoring real-world evidence in favour of what is little more than an economic ideology.
The track record is clear: modest minimum wage increases do not cause substantial job losses.
Anyone still insisting otherwise in the face of decades of data is economically fucking illiterate.
https://medium.com/westenberg/paying-a-living-wage-wont-fuck-the-world-30ba6096294d
Joan Westenberg /
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