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Could raising the minimum wage prevent thousands of suicides?
CBS "News" ^
| January 10, 2020
| By Aimee Picchi
Posted on 01/10/2020 6:33:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:34:53 AM PST
by
hadaclueonce
( This time I am Deplorable)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How many lives could be saved if the Minimum Wage were raised to $100 an hour?
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:36:35 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
What kind of crap is this? More made-up non-facts.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:37:09 AM PST
by
Agatsu77
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Lowering taxes form our oppressive government would increase jobs more.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:37:12 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Banning Television would save more lives.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:38:23 AM PST
by
eyeamok
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Give me a raise, or I'll do it!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Minimum wage is $0.00. They never seem to understand that you can’t pay people more than they produce. Artificially raising wages will either cause the goods and services prices to increase or the company let’s people go or close entirely. They have learned nothing from their past endeavors.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:40:34 AM PST
by
Dutch Boy
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fact free statistics are about what is left to the glowBullists.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:40:54 AM PST
by
Steamburg
(Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sheeeyit. 27,550 lives are ended on a weekly basis (give or take) thanks to abortion.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:41:43 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
No but it might cause thousands as people are denied the chance to get an entry level job.
It basic supply and demand equation. Artificially raise the cost of the supply with price controls, you reduce the demand for the item. In this case, unskilled labor.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:42:00 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
There are only two beings who know whether a suicide has been prevented or not: the individual, and God.
No amount of research could ever quantify “prevented suicides”. This is because researchers cannot possibly “know” for a fact that a real incident was really prevented.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:42:19 AM PST
by
Migraine
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fewer suicides occur when minimum wages are higher That's because automated kiosks can't kill themselves.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:42:33 AM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How much was that Grant worth? And who instructed them to come up with this answer.....which makes no sense at all.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Raising minimum wage will put many thousands out-of-work with no alternatives. (And, these jobs could be off-shored, with little prospect of return.)
I would predict more suicides (and homicides) and, of course, homelessness.
Dems know this, and persist in deceiving those among the lower scale earners on its voter plantation.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:43:51 AM PST
by
NEMDF
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Social statistics... ha, ha, ha.
Who paid the researchers, I’d like to know.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Every $1 increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 6% reduction in suicide for high school grads. association is not the same as cause
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:44:18 AM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
LOL. This is beyond parody. People are being driven to suicide by the evil Republicans not raising the minimum wage!! What about preventing suicide by opening up the job market to unskilled people by getting rid of the minimum wage?
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:44:19 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I saw a version of this on local TV. It doesn’t seem they included the people who get hours cut or laid off completely in the report.
That’s very deceptive.
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posted on
01/10/2020 6:44:28 AM PST
by
budj
(Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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