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WaPo is being contradicted by a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research...

https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/NBER%20Working%20Pa...

"Using a variety of methods to analyze employment in all sectors paying below a specified real hourly rate, we conclude that the second wage increase to $13 reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs by around 9 percent, while hourly wages in such jobs increased by around 3 percent. Consequently, total payroll fell for such jobs, implying that the minimum wage ordinance lowered low-wage employees’ earnings by an average of $125 per month in 2016"

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WaPo is being contradicted by a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research...

I typically avoid this, as the HN guidelines specifically say not to, but you didn’t read the article, did you? I say this only because the WaPo article, by my reading, is a direct response TO THE VERY ARTICLE YOU REFERENCE.

It's not a contradiction, they are responding directly to that report.

Sadly no... The Washington Post is explicitly writing about and refers directly to the paper you mentioned in the First paragraph, Last sentence:

Yet the release of a new study this week from a group of researchers at the University of Washington has brought opponents of minimum wage increases out of the woodwork again.

You might notice this by looking cited article link (new study): http://www.nber.org/papers/w23532.pdf

or noticing that all of the NBER writers are from UW, or that their data set is a confidential data set from the Washington Employment Security Department etc, etc...

Did you read the article? They are literally responding to this study.

You should try actually reading the WaPo article. They spend about half the article discussing that exact report.

Take that with a grain or two of salt: see http://www.epi.org/publication/the-high-road-seattle-labor-m...

"Data limitations and methodological problems bias new analysis of Seattle’s minimum wage increase"

Makes sense.

I have a contractor for one of my companies that I pay $20/hr for doing mostly CMS edits. She's been pressuring me for more hours. We asked her to get more acquainted with Snapchat and other things to get more hours but she pushed back.

We gave her a way to get more hours but she only wanted the easy ones that she already knew. If her rate was less, I'd have her do more things. Time to part ways unfortunately.

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