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Published in TZ Latest News 25 August, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Restaurants In D.C. Slash Jobs After Minimum Wage Hike

A few days ago we wrote about the job losses starting to pile up in Seattle in the wake of that city’s passage of a $15 minimum wage (see “Something “Unexpected” Happened When Seattle Raised The Minimum Wage“).  In that post, we noted that seemingly no amount of empirical evidence would ever be sufficient to convince certain elected officials that setting artificially high labor rates would ultimately only serve to hurt the people at the lower end of the pay spectrum due to

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