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Unemployment was lower but jobs became worse. If there was no increase in federal minimum wage in a decade, you can see why employment went up in that exact sam
by climwe 6y ago
Unemployment was lower but jobs became worse. If there was no increase in federal minimum wage in a decade, you can see why employment went up in that exact same decade.
It's not good enough to just point to one statistic and cancel out a deeply complex claim like that one.
- eru 6y ago> Unemployment was lower but jobs became worse. How do we know that? > If there was no increase in federal minimum wage in a decade, you can see why employment went up in that exact same decade. That's great news, if true. It suggest a very actionable strategy to keep unemployment in check. (Though, of course, looking around the globe, even the absence of a minimum wage law doesn't make all other unemployment problems magically vanish.) > It's not good enough to just point to one statistic and cancel out a deeply complex claim like that one. Indeed. This was just to point out that the claim would have to be backed by quite a bit of evidence, because the surface facts about unemployment need quite a bit of explaining away first. There was no evidence at all provided in the comment I replied to. So this was an invitation to bring some evidence. I have no opinion on 'oligarchs', only on hypothetical 'oligarchs who have a policy of discarding workers'.
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- s5300 6y agoI mean... have you read the Wikipedia page of the current head of the Dept. of Education? See also: page of the head of the Dept. of Justice? If you haven't... you really should If doing that doesn't change any of your opinions on the matter... oh well, we're already doomed.
- refurb 6y agoJobs became “worse”? Wages were up the quarter or 2 before Covid.