(May 18, 2014 at 2:32 pm)Heywood Wrote: Its not one year of slacking job growth. It the jobs killed times 16 years. Now a minimum wage helps some but hurts others. Your argument is that it does more good than harm. I don't think that is the case. It devastated the African American communities by cutting the bottom rungs off the economic ladder. I think today African Americans would have been as well off as whites if not for Jim Crow laws and arbitrary wages floors designed to protect the white man's ability to earn a living wage.
So, now the argument against the minimum wage is that it prevented blacks from lowballing whites for pay? If harming blacks was the point of the minimum wage, conservatives would be out there carrying signs saying that it's time for a $15 minimum in Seattle.
