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Bloomberg Article Misleads by Omitting Key Detail about Economists Surveyed on $15 Minimum Wage A recent Bloomberg article cited a new University of Chicago survey to demonstrate a "shift" in the economics profession on minimum wage laws. Here's what they left out. Friday, February 5, 2021 , via Wikimedia Commons Bloomberg News recently ran a profile of Arin Dube, a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The story is a powerful one. It explores how Dube went from a 16-year-old burger flipper earning $3.85 at a McDonald’s in Seattle to a leading authority on the ...

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Business week peter coy. the latest issue features six covers in its efforts to share the stories of workers most affected by the minimum wage debate. peter writes raising the minimum wage is certain to be a wedge issue for democrats in the midterm elections because it's the rare redistributive measure that joys forward popular support but to opponents it's max of big government and heavy handedness and explains why politicians on both sides are reminding their qaets of their ideologies. what is the writ minimum wage? what is the fairest way for the world's largest economy to arrive at it? joe...

Costing jobs. peter, you actually say in the article that the question is not whether the minimum wage is going to be raised or not, the question is finding that sweet spot. talk about it. >> so i looked at it from both the economic point of view and the kind of morality social justice point of view and you get distinct answers. on economics, the wisdom you find it in econ 101 is if you put a price floor that is above the equilibrium you get management. the study in 1994 involving fad food employees in pennsylvania and new jersey, ever since then that seemingly obvious statement is slowly unde...