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. ...
The point is they aren’t separate things, its not a dictatorship. And this is why the original poster said they don’t blame individuals, but also said they should have covid tested at the border to prevent them from getting help.
I’ll take the actions over the words, even if they were just hypothetical actions.