Reply #28: "... FORCED to work less ..."

[TahitiNut]

I find it fascinating that you've repeated this phrase several times in this thread ... as though the 'work' and not the 'pay' is the objective of a worker.

No matter how many times the minimum wage has been increased in the last 70 years, at both the state and federal levels, the cheap labor advocates have yet to offer ANY objective (scientific/statistical) analysis that substantiates the doom and gloom scenario of 'more unemployment.' Not at all. Instead, the better economic well-being of states with the highest minimum wages is inarguable. In the months after increases, employment has far more often INCREASED than decreased ... yet the cheap labor advocates repeat the same, tired, baseless claims over and over again. It's ALWAYS "a friend" or some other anecdotal story ... and is never reliably substantiated in any broader statistical measure. Never.