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Hello and welcome to business daily from the b.b.c. I man well ask our asa did Data analytics companies play a role in determining the outcome of the British vote to leave thier opinion I think the allegation is that fair practices and fair democracy is under threat from large data companies are processing data in ways that are invisible to the public we have a special report plus how can you tell if youre the target of big data we get it from someone who set up a course on the subject you dont...

>> when astarte came out this week showing seattles minimum wage is costing thousands of jobs and herding low income workers, leaders attacked the messenger, a team of economists. the group was hired three years ago to study the effects of seattles wage experiment. officials stopped the funding when they didnt like the results. >> we saw it was based on flawed methodology and was going to be unreliable. we contacted the professor. >> the professor of berkeley has done some done several studies o...

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Wage is costing thousands of jobs and herding low income workers, leaders attacked the messenger, a team of economists. the group was hired three years ago to study the effects of seattles wage experiment. officials stopped the funding when they didnt like the results. >> we saw it was based on flawed methodology and was going to be unreliable. we contacted the professor. >> the professor of berkeley has done some done several studies on the minimum wage. concluded that raising the wage only hel...

>> thats correct. >> what is the role of that board? >> this board reports to the assistant administrator of research and development at epa, and we guide the assistant administrator in the research thats done internally at epa. >> okay. >> so its all about just whats going on in epa. we dont deal with regulations. we dont deal with policy. were dealing with kind of the basic science thats going into eventually maybe to support regulations. but were overseeing that science and giving advice on i...

Administrator in the research thats done internally at epa. >> okay. >> so, its all about just what is going on at epa. we deent deal with regulations, we dont deal with policy. we are dealing with kind of the basic science that is going into eventually maybe to support regulations, but its -- were overseeing that science. giving advice is it the right science, are they doing it with the best methodology, is it the gold standard, is it going to withstand scrutiny when it goes -- >> helping decis...

Earlier study that found the hike hasnt affected employment. however, the report, that report actually only looked at restaurant employees, while the washington team tracked all low-wage workers. liberal groups are criticizing the washington studys methodology, but theres still plenty of momentum for a higher minimum wage. many states are actually taking matters into their own hands. 17 states hiked their minimum wage this year. new york and california are on track to raise theirs to $15 by 2022...

Percentage, the organization says its 3%, some critics have taken issue with the methodology that lead them to that number. and say that it is possibly higher. we couldnt get, i dont have enough knowledge of it to figure out what percentage of planned parenthood does is is abortion, but on the topic, no federal dollars can be used to pay for abortions at planned parenthood. there are few in limited exceptions courtesy of the hiyd amendment. i can feel it on my phone. just stop for a minute. put ...

Geopolitical threads in the world? russia. he was left off the stage by democrats, and barack obama dismissed it. then it falls into barack obamas lap, and he does nothing about it. that was a "washington post" story that needs more attention. >> kennedy: just to go back to comey and loretta lynch. i am wondering in bringing her up in the testimony of that was a signal to please subpoena the rest of my memoranda. because he was talking about the explicit way in which he documented the conversati...

This case is going to the supreme court of the united states. this week, the justices announced they will review a case in wisconsin that struck down the redistricting map that the gop controls legislature created after the 2010 census and heres why. in the 2012 state house race, republicans won only 48% of the popular votes statewide, but they received a super majority of 60 seats. the challengers in the new case say theyve found a way, and joining me now is one of the lawyers arguing this befo...