zerohedge
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/01/2018 - 17:10
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https://zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-01/we-got-some-folks-fired-minimum-wage-going-these-18-states-todayMinimum wage workers in 18 states will receive a pay raise today, not necessarily because they exhibited exemplary work ethic resulting in a promotion or merit-based salary boost, but because politicians in their states randomly decided that their services are worth more money today than they were yesterday.
While the efforts of our ill-informed ruling class in state capitols all around the country to artificially raise the cost of labor will result in pay raises for some, as we discuss frequently here it will also result in job losses for others.
Be that as it may, here are the 18 states where hundreds or thousands of minimum wage workers are about to get fired just because it's now officially 2018...Happy New Year (table courtesy of Forbes):
Thanks a lot, Marxists./S
