Ann Coulter takes a stand against low wages

[Charlie M.]

Solution: stop importing millions of unskilled immigrants.

[Chakravartin]

No serious economist denies that increasing the minimum wage will cost jobs...

http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-e...q5a9E77NMV

The empirical evidence now pretty decisively shows no employment effect...

I'm aware that some fairly clean natural experiments have not found effects...

I know the Econ 101 answer but the evidence suggests the effect on employment is between small and 0...

The evidence is pretty clear that employment effects are small and benefits to workers are first order...

[Charlie M.]

The layoffs have already started with gov't supported non-profits which employed the disabled.

[cbelt3]

Miss Coulter has no clue what our existing laws and policies are. She is an idiot. And trying to be 'relevant' by using the #1 overused Buzzfeed phrase of 2013. Which makes us all :barf: at this point.

[OWC Jamie]

miss coulter has an insane sense of humor

[Speedy]

Coulter is right about this facet of wages and I don't agree with him often. But immigration drives down wages here and drives them up in the countries that have large populations that emigrate like Mexico. However, this is no reason to decrease immigration nor to not raise the minimum wage.