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jimnyc
08-06-2018, 01:33 PM
When will these folks learn? :laugh: All the demands have backfired. I predicted this and I'm a dummy! And now I see these robots being tested that can do burgers, chicken and other products already - and of course your order will be correct, unlike when a HS graduate fills your order.

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Minnesota's minimum wage hike cost teenagers thousands of jobs, study says

Minnesota’s minimum wage has cost young and low-skilled workers thousands of jobs in the fast-food restaurant sector since 2013, according to University of Wisconsin economics professor Noah Williams.

Williams tracked and compared employment data in Minnesota and Wisconsin from 2014 to 2018, over which Minnesota’s minimum wage increased incrementally from $6 an hour to $9.65 in January 2018. Wisconsin’s minimum wage remained at the federal level of $7.25 an hour, the Minnesota Watchdog reported.

Generally, as the minimum wage increases “businesses will demand less labor, which could mean fewer workers and/or shorter hours per worker,” Williams said, according to Minnesota Watchdog. “There were workers willing to work for wages that were less than the new, higher minimum wage and businesses that were willing to hire them for that … The distortion is that the minimum wage rules out mutually beneficial agreements between workers and firms.”

The fast-food industries in both states were growing at similar paces in 2014 when the minimum wage of each rested on the federal level. As the Minnesota’s minimum continued to rise, a disparity between employment growth in each state’s fast-food industry developed and widened.

Rest - http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/06/minnesota-minimum-wage-hike-lost-jobs/