"In what has become a running joke amongst those skeptical of the claim that minimum wage increases have no effect on unemployment, a recent report by the Employment Policies Institute showed that 174 of the 184 co-sponsors of a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour hired unpaid interns."
"In a review of over 100 studies, economists David Neumark and William Wascher found that,A sizable majority of the studies surveyed ... give a relatively consistent (although not always statistically significant) indication of negative employment effects of minimum wages. In addition, among the papers we view as providing the most credible evidence, almost all point to negative employment effects, both for the United States as well as for many other countries." http://www.nber.org/papers/w12663.pdf
"Yes, minimum wages still do increase unemployment."
https://mises.org/blog/seattles-minimum-wage-supporters-ignore-facts
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @05:02PM (1 child)
The formal legal term is "illegal alien". Everything else is incorrect. The "undocumented" (or your silly French "sans papiere") term is especially bad, since the norm is to have fraudulent identity documents. Identity theft is an ongoing crime that really hurts real people. I suppose we could describe them as "transnational trespassers", but "illegal aliens" is proper.
Such people have an ongoing continuous status of "illegal" due to their presence here. Essentially, they are the crime. Most have committed numerous felonies, particularly identity theft and 2nd offense unauthorized border crossing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @08:14PM
White racist criminal spotted! ICE, please locate this scum and deport him back to the Caucasus Mountains. His very presence in America is unconstitutional.