#Wage

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Swordsfall1

A whole lot of people hate Capitalism until the idea of raising the minimum wage comes up.Suddenly it's a bunch of wannabe millionaires theorycrafting about $33 Big Macs. When you

Jake Vigdor

JakeVigdor

Hello everyone arguing about the #minimumwage! Someday I'll post a thread about the evidence our @UW team compiled in Seattle.Today let's talk about hours.Raise the wage on most low-paying jobs

Goldy

GoldyHA

1/ I'm not sure where @KING5Seattle reporter @jwhittenbergK5 gets his news, but it's obviously not from watching KING 5 news. Because if he did, he'd be well familiar with a

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

New paper providing *overall* impact of minimum wages on low-wage employment with Cengiz, Lindner and @dzentlermunro. We use ML to create a demographics-based low-wage group capturing ~75% of all likely

F*ckBigPharma

markaprovost

The Fight for $15 started in 2012. Inflation is 2% a year but most costs like healthcare, housing, and education increase by 4-5% annually. The Democrats propose a $15/hour by

Austin McAlpin

AustinMcAlpin

1/7) I’ve posted this scenario a few times before. I’m not saying minimum wage does or doesn’t need to be increased, I’m saying I’m a small business owner & I

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

Today @USCBO released its projections for $15/2025 min wage. Here are some thoughts on their employment estimate. Tl;dr. They used same evidence (11 studies) as 2019 report but UPweighted more

AshleyStevens

The_Acumen

This weekend taught me a lot of working people aren’t against capitalism because it’s an oppressive system. They’re against it because it doesn’t benefit them. Some of y’all don’t want

travis

TravisShreffler

Lemme illustrate the fallacy of "minimum wage increases makes costs go up too much" for you the only way I know how, using a universally understood metric:The Taco Bell soft

Kate Sykes

SykesWriter

The City of Portland passed hazard pay effective today, and it is now the law of the land. It is the people we elected who oppose it and, in so

Dr. Tori

vbarber820

I'm not going to retweet The Bad Take, but a core purpose of a lab should be to educate students and expose them to the research process. If you aren't

A. Dee.

Alleyson

Thread:I'm anxious about UBI/BI program implementation for many reasons. One of them being the enthusiasm of conservative & capitalist driven groups like UBI Works, which have invested $ into a

Charles Allen

charlesallen

The CFO's latest economic review is out & it clearly shows how uneven this pandemic has hit DC workers & working families. That should guide how we respond and where

Greg Angel

NewsGuyGreg

RAISING THE PAY: Orlando Health announced it will spend $4 million to start process to increase minimum wage.Starts by raising $11/hour to $13/hour beginning January 31, 2021. The minimum wage

mike schussler

mikeschussler

Buddy lets work out the practical cost of a job Guarantee. There are 11,12 million unemployed. There are 2,5 million informal jobs most far below minimum wage. There are about

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

As I said, payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy. But let me nerd out a bit on exactly why they're so useless right now 1/https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1292418243332919296 Econ 101

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