[mjp]

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

[ctdonath2]

“Every $1 increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 6% reduction in suicide for high school grads.”

I expect one capable of graduating high school be able to at least manage a minimum wage job, whatever that minimum is.

The conclusion (being a correlation, not cause) fails to address those who _didn’t_ finish high school, unable to achieve even basic productivity beyond what a robot or kiosk can do. Reducing the options for those presumably leads to increased, even terminal, despair.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If we want to play cause and association it’s possible that more disposable income will lead to more drug related deaths.