The alternative to the living wage.

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Correlation does not imply causation. An argument can be made that Washington and San Francisco are experiencing growth because they are coastal.

Very true, but why they are experiencing growth is kind of beside the point. The primary argument against the minimum wage is that it kills jobs. Whatever the reason for the growth, there is growth going on, and the highest minimum wages in the country are obviously not stopping these areas that also have the highest job growth in the country. It's not an isolated phenomenon, either; the top places on both lists have many above-average minimum wages. According to the anti-MW narrative, these are the places which should be seeing the worst job losses, yet of those top 20 states, 11 have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum.

This is what minimum wage advocates have been saying the whole long time there's been a minimum wage, and eight decades of a consistently-rising minimum wage should show so much evidence of job destruction that it should have ruined the economy long before I was born. If you were right, you should not need to still be making doomsday predictions 80 years after the minimum wage was instated.

It's time to admit that it works, already, and get with the program.