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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 Tork on Tuesday July 08 2014, @03:50PM
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(Score: 2) by khallow on Tuesday July 08 2014, @07:11PM
Exploting workers does not create experienced companies or employees.
That's a separate issue from minimum wage. You really ought to look into all these hidden assumptions you are making. A certain level of pay doesn't make exploitation. Nor is exploitation of workers automatically something which proscribes experienced companies or employees. After all, any employer can be considered to exploit their employees. That is the whole point of employment - exploitment in exchange for wages.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday July 08 2014, @07:32PM
No, it isn't.
"A certain level of pay doesn't make exploitation."
What an absurd thing to say... Yes, it most certainly and obviously does. You'd seriously have to be unaware of cost-of-living to assert something like that.
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