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Re: Minimum wage hike in DC costs lots of jobs |
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Posted by Scrabbleship on Tue Jun 7 11:25:44 2016, in response to Minimum wage hike in DC costs lots of jobs, posted by Dave on Tue Jun 7 09:39:40 2016. Having been job searching in DC itself, this survey is suspect for a ton of reasons:1: What kind of jobs did they survey? Were these offices? Restaurants? Other retail? A small boutique store would get hit more than say Safeway. 2: This backfiring only will drive people to work in Virginia/Maryland where as it is where many already commute to even on the service level. 3: Work in DC proper is heavily divided by education level. Your typical degree holders would rather do "funemployment" if unemployed than go into the service sector and the service sector often looks down on anyone with any education. I speak from experience as a degree holder who was unemployed in DC and told by service jobs to "not bother.: 4: Work in DC is also somewhat divided by race and class and given the CoL and education levels lower income white people just do not exist inside the Beltway. 5: Even with these divisions the glut of internships means this will effect the white collar sector a lot less than it ordinarily would. |
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