A new report shows minimum wage increases have had little effect on the number of jobs in Maryland and nationwide. While the rhetoric around increasing the minimum wage often comes with the caution it will reduce low-wage employment, a new review of decades of research showed most studies found no job losses after the state or local minimum wage is raised. Ben Zipperer, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute and the review's co-author, said raising the minimum wage has unquestionably benefited workers. ...
  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Where I live, Washington, the minimum wage is $16.28 p/hour. Across the border in Idaho, the federal minimum applies — $7.25.

    Businesses on the higher-wage side of the border are doing fine, and Spokaners do not drive across the border into Coeur d’Alene for cheaper groceries or a half-price Big Mac.

    • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Spokaners do not drive across the border into Coeur d’Alene for cheaper groceries or a half-price Big Mac.

      I actively boycott any and all ID businesses, because of the state’s shitty labor and reproductive-rights laws and its nurture of Christofascism. They can Gilead all they want but it won’t be with my financial support.

      • ravhall@discuss.online
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        2 months ago

        They just come into WA for the medical center and clog up the system. ID residents should be banned from receiving medical care in WA.

        • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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          2 months ago

          ID residents should be banned from receiving medical care in WA.

          But I think accelerationist policies often hurt vulnerable people…

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              2 months ago

              And what, die? I think keeping people alive and preventing unnecessary deaths should be the priority first and foremost. Idaho should be made to improve their healthcare infrastructure, and then we can force them to stay in their state.

              But as of right now, the idea of turning someone down at the hospital because their ID says a different state does not sit well with me.