Subject: Seattle’s painful lessons about the $15 minimum wage
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 05:23:11 -0400 (EDT)

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All Things in Moderation, Including Wage Hikes

As activists across the country “Fight for $15,” the results from Seattle’s wage-boosting experiment are in — and they’re not good. Megan McArdle says the city offers a case study in unintended consequences, as workers saw their earnings fall by $125 a month. Noah Smith, who generally supports minimum-wage hikes, says the new data is a sign advocates should go slow: If boomtown Seattle stumbles on a higher pay floor, imagine the harm in poorer parts of the United States.

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London’s status as center of the financial universe seemed secure just a few years ago (no offense, New York), but now some expect Brexit to cause an exodus of City bankers to Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin. Count Satyajit Das among the skeptical: London may or may not continue in its historical role as a global finance capital, he says, but its competitive advantages are too many to discount.

Gorsuch Wastes No Time Stirring Up Trouble

Justice Neil Gorsuch quickly established himself as fierce rabble-rouser during his just-ended first term on the Supreme Court. Noah Feldman reads his dissent in a gay-rights ruling as a rallying cry for conservative resistance.

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What Jeff Sessions Gets Wrong About Marijuana

Quite a lot, actually, but let’s focus on medicinal cannabis: Scientists and doctors agree that it helps sick people, and it appears to limit opioid abuse. So why does Sessions want to fight it? Ashley C. Bradford and W. David Bradford warn that the AG’s drug-warrior stance will hurt more people than it helps.

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