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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.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday July 04 2014, @11:40PM
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.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:35AM
> 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.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:36AM
I was accused of reductio ad absurdum, which was exactly what it was, and now you want to move the goal post?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @06:25AM
> 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.