A new report shows minimum wage increases have had little effect on the number of jobs in Maryland and nationwide. While the rhetoric around increasing the minimum wage often comes with the caution it will reduce low-wage employment, a new review of decades of research showed most studies found no job losses after the state or local minimum wage is raised. Ben Zipperer, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute and the review's co-author, said raising the minimum wage has unquestionably benefited workers. ...
You are starting to sound like someone who says Washingtons citizens lives are worth more than Idahos. You believe this because people in Idaho did not seem to care about their lives as much as people in your state. This is shown in the way Idaho handled mitigating covid.
Is any of that wrong?
I don’t disagree with the facts, just who’s to blame for it. But if you want to blame a bunch of sick and dead folk from a neighboring state, I can’t stop you.
Nah, that’s what you are hearing. But, it’s not really what I’m saying. Something something nuance.
You think Idaho’s government fucked over their citizens then?
Yes. And it’s their responsibility. Red states need to learn they can’t rely on blue ones to pick up the slack.