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tomasien | 6 years ago

The only stat they cite is that some employers are raising prices. There are no other stats cited - only anecdotes.

In the ideal pro-minimum-wage world, prices go up slightly but the impact on those who get the minimum wage bump is bigger than the impact on those people from price changes OR the impact on other people for those price changes.

That's the tradeoff pro-min-wage people would expect and want so if that's happening, no news there.

The tradeoff they would not want would be massive hours cuts, businesses going out of business (although some would want that - not me!), or this turning into an excuse for the businesses to cut costs and/or automate. We would need data of some kind to understand if that's happening.

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