Study: Retail prices stable a year after Seattle minimum wage hike

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7. What a surprise. I brought a table of conservatives

to a halt on this topic a few months ago when I asked them ("just curious," and they did bring it up) if they would oppose a 200% wage increase if it meant a 20% chance of being let go. Silence, then quip and change of subject from one of the quicker people. Two of them were business owners, a couple retired, and a couple still working who I feel sure must be hurting in this rural, low-pay area (she's a school cafeteria worker augmenting his loan processor income, very typical). And us.

I never got a chance to say I'd absolutely choose a chance to double my income. (It'd be over 200% here because this is Georgia. The min wage is so low the federal $7.25 kicks in -- for most.)