# Green New Deal: "Economic security for those unwilling to work"

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-new-deal-economic-security-for-those-unwilling-to-work/829189
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [February 8, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-new-deal-economic-security-for-those-unwilling-to-work/829189 "2019-02-08T17:53:32Z")
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### Author: ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-new-deal-economic-security-for-those-unwilling-to-work/829189/174 "2019-02-18T05:19:19Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> Furthermore, the only place minimum wage boosts tend to have small effects is when, due to supply and demand in the labor market the lowest wage is already high.

[Here’s](https://illinoisepi.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/pmcr-ilepi-chicago-minimum-wage-study-final.pdf)a paper studying the impact of increasing the minimum wage by more than 50% (from 8.25 to 13). Conclusion: "After the minimum wage hikes, incomes were boosted most for more than 330,000 total workers in low-paying occupations and industries…Overall, the higher minimum wage has been associated with an increase in worker incomes but little to no impact on employment or the number of private business establishments. "

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