[CaptainBubba]

The actual amount might be "miniscule" from your perspective but percenage wise it isn't really. Really you have little right to criticize my simply yacking on about econ 101 because all you've managed to do so far is formulate your own theories and say you just don't believe ones your opponents present.

Your source is interesting no doubt but there are a myriad of complaints regarding it as well. Regardless of the validity of any of these complaints its pretty obvious something is amiss because no logical argument or explanation could satisfy the link their trying to make, which is that higher minimum wages cause employment. Sure a few have suggested that but their explanations largely rely on a great deal more time than this study spans. One specific major oversight is that if they're were looking at fast food chains then employment is directly tied to one's hours. Its entirely possible they all hired more employees to fill in the gaps in shifts where people nomally overlapped eachother doing the same job.

I find it really wierd that you can actually argue that business would hire more people if their already going by minimum wage just because they have to. Being the defender of the poor on these boards have you yourself ever worked in a minimum wage enviroment? They will try to squeeze every dollar of work out of you that is possible to make a profit out of you. A modest increase like this might mean they eliminate you if it is within reason, and having worked in such an enviroment its really not something hard to imagine.