In the 15 years that followed, [WA State’s] minimum wage climbed - TopicsExpress



          

In the 15 years that followed, [WA State’s] minimum wage climbed to $9.32 -- the highest in the country. Meanwhile job growth continued at an average 0.8 percent annual pace, 0.3 percentage point above the national rate. bloomberg/news/2014-03-05/washington-shows-highest-minimum-wage-state-beats-u-s-with-jobs.html In a review of hundreds of academic/professional studies on impact of minimum wage on jobs (linked below)... an avalanche of information concludes: No impact on jobs. ... only couple/few big corporation-sponsored studies (buried by the avalanche) conducted by outspoken conservatives disagree - like the one, in 2008, that the article (linked above) mentions: cepr.net/doc.../publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf Please share.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:04:33 +0000

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