Why are you assuming 'we' is hubski? 'We' is economists.
Because I am not an economist. Economics may be clear on the subject — I think it is — but economists are a capricious lot.one who doesn't care about elections
Obviously this is important, unfortunately. Supporting minimum wage, like opposing immigration, is an easy win in the polls even if one knows that both positions are almost certainly harmful to one's constituents.Doesn't change the facts
I understood you to mean that the numbers were massaged to increase the out-of-work number to half a million, is that right? I was surprised to see a dot-gov source publish findings against minimum wage at all, and respect the fact that they express a wide range of uncertainty, describing "a two-thirds chance that the effect would be in the range between a very slight reduction in employment and a reduction in employment of 1.0 million workers."