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States That Raised Their Minimum Wages Are Experiencing Faster Job Growth

posted by janrinok on Friday July 04 2014, @03:52PM   
from the happy-workers dept.

gewg_ writes:

The Center for American Progress reports:

Think a higher minimum wage is a job killer? Think again: The states that raised their minimum wages on January 1 have seen higher employment growth since then than the states that kept theirs at the same rate.

The minimum wage went up in 13 states Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington either thanks to automatic increases in line with inflation or new legislation, as Ben Wolcott reports in his analysis at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The average change in employment for those states over the first five months of the year as compared with the last five of 2013 is 0.99 percent, while the average for all remaining states is 0.68 percent.

Digging deeper, all but one of those states are experiencing increases in employment, and nine of them have seen growth above the median rate.

• Re:dubious claimRe:dubious claim (Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Friday July 04 2014, @10:23PM

  by BasilBrush (3994) on Friday July 04 2014, @10:23PM (#64336)

  reductio ad absurdum is a far more valid argument than a very narrow study done with no understanding of economics over a short period of time with cherry picked examples.

  You're claiming that a fallacious argument category is more valid than an argument with data. That's simply because that's what you want to believe. Had the data been the other way, you would have been quite happy with it. Confirmation bias.

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• Re:dubious claimRe:dubious claim (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday July 04 2014, @11:40PM

  by frojack (1554) on Friday July 04 2014, @11:40PM (#64352) Journal

  reductio ad absurdum is FAR from a fallacious argument category.

  First recognized and studied in classical Greek philosophy for example in Aristotle's Prior Analytics), this technique has been used throughout history in both formal mathematical and philosophical reasoning, as well as informal debate.
  Back to school.

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  • Re:dubious claimRe:dubious claim (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:35AM (#64385)

    > reductio ad absurdum is FAR from a fallacious argument category.

    Too bad that's not what you were doing.

    What you've done is known as a strawman argument. [wikipedia.org] A favorite of the simple-minded because they themselves are so easy to fool, that they fool themselves into thinking they've made a valid argument.

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    • Re:dubious claimRe:dubious claim (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:36AM

      by frojack (1554) on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:36AM (#64419) Journal

      I was accused of reductio ad absurdum, which was exactly what it was, and now you want to move the goal post?

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      • Re:dubious claim(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @06:25AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @06:25AM (#64454)

        > I was accused of reductio ad absurdum, which was exactly what it was, and now you want to move the goal post?

        I didn't accuse you of that. This isn't a discussion between you and the world where the world is just one person.
        But it is unsurprising you would try to apply that illogic in your defense. You see stupid and you think you can fix it by adding more stupid.

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