How many lives could be saved if the Minimum Wage were raised to $100 an hour?
Apparently, we don't have to go that high.
Every $1 increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 6% reduction in suicide for high school grads.
If you wanted to eliminate 100% of all suicides (by their logic) you would only have to increase the minimum wage by $17 (100%/6% = 16.6666)
Would probably make the suicide rate worse, when they can’t get jobs at all.
Why stop at $100/hr? Raise it to $1,000/hr and eliminate suicides altogether.
Wonder how unemployment effects the suicde rate?