{"id":4207,"date":"2007-02-13T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/02\/13\/unintended-but-foreseeable\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T20:26:56","slug":"unintended-but-foreseeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/02\/unintended-but-foreseeable\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended but foreseeable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">From Brit Hume&#8217;s &quot;grapevine &quot; last night:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> The minimum wage increase that took effect in Arizona last month has brought with it some unintended consequences &#8212; many teenagers are losing their jobs. The Arizona Republic reports some employers say payroll budgets have risen so much since the minimum wage went from $5.15 per hour to $6.75 &#8212; they have had to cut jobs and hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> The owner of one Phoenix pizza restaurant says his payroll has shot up 13 percent and he&#8217;s had to lay off three teenagers and cut hours for others. Another shop owner said expenses rose by $2,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> A Federal Reserve study showed that for every ten percent increase in the minimum wage &#8212; there is a corresponding two to three percent decrease in employment.<br \/>\n[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/burgyetal.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/minimum-wage-unintended-consequences.html\">Veritas<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Well Democrats support a minimum wage and I guess zero is a minimum wage &#8211; just about as minimum as you can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Brit Hume&#8217;s &quot;grapevine &quot; last night: The minimum wage increase that took effect in Arizona last month has brought with it some unintended consequences &#8212; many teenagers are losing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}