Jorycle

Jorycle t1_iraccf6 wrote

"Fleeing CA and NY" seems spinny. NY is the #1 source of people moving to Florida, but NY is actually the #1 source of people moving pretty much anywhere - including California. At the same time, NY has seen a surge of people moving to it. People just move in and out of NY a lot.

Florida's other top donors include Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio before you get to CA. There's really no one fleeing anywhere.

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Jorycle t1_iraaxsq wrote

>“My concern is those young people who are trying to get into the labor force that don’t have the skills to be worth $11 or $13 or up to $15 an hour as it gets there in 2026,” says Dr. Parrish.

While he also has some good things to say about the increase, this is a terrible argument.

The minimum wage is going up simply because that's what's needed to pay the bills. Florida has people who work full time but are homeless. That's silliness. To say nothing of young workers being less than 20% of minimum wage workers - so why should at least 80% of that class of workers live in poverty because of some hypothetical "skills" argument of an extreme minority?

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