{"id":21539,"date":"2015-08-15T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21539"},"modified":"2015-08-15T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T17:50:25","slug":"heres-why-the-latest-conservative-talking-point-about-the-15-minimum-wage-is-meaningless-and-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/08\/15\/heres-why-the-latest-conservative-talking-point-about-the-15-minimum-wage-is-meaningless-and-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why the Latest Conservative Talking Point About the $15 Minimum Wage Is Meaningless (and Here\u2019s What You Can Do About It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Civic Skunkworks<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/civicskunkworks.com\/heres-why-the-latest-conservative-talking-point-about-the-15-minimum-wage-is-meaningless-and-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Civic Skunkworks post\">Here\u2019s Why the Latest Conservative Talking Point About the $15 Minimum Wage Is Meaningless (and Here\u2019s What You Can Do About It)<\/a> &#8211; August 12, 2015 11:53 am<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;It\u2019s a sad fact that bullshit travels faster than truth on the internet, but if we all work together, we can stop the conservative agenda from drowning out our good news with their meaningless noise.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two follow-up posts as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civicskunkworks.com\/fox-business-twists-the-truth-seven-times-in-100-seconds-on-seattles-minimum-wage\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Civic Skunkworks post\">Fox Business Twists the Truth Seven Times in 100 Seconds on Seattle\u2019s Minimum Wage<\/a> &#8211; August 13, 2015 12:52 pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civicskunkworks.com\/the-data-on-that-minimum-wage-report-continues-to-fall-to-pieces\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Civic Skunkworks post\">The Data on That Minimum Wage Report Continues to Fall to Pieces<\/a> &#8211; August 14, 2015 10:54 am<\/p>\n<p>This is a good series of articles to remember.  Put it in your arsenal next time someone asks you to just tell them when did Faux Noise ever lie.  You can also use it to cast aspersions on the &#8220;scholarship&#8221; of The American Enterprise Institute.  It isn&#8217;t scholarship unless they are trying to teach how to lie with statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some laws to remember.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/category\/greenbergs-laws\/greenbergs-law-of-counterproductive-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Posts in this category\">Greenberg\u2019s Law of Counterproductive Behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf you see a behavior that seems to you to be counterproductive, perhaps you have misunderstood what the actor\u2019s real goal was.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/category\/greenbergs-laws\/greenbergs-law-of-the-media\/\" target=\"_blank\"title=\"Posts in this category\">Greenberg\u2019s Law of The Media<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf a news item has a number in it, then it is probably misleading\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civic Skunkworks has the article Here\u2019s Why the Latest Conservative Talking Point About the $15 Minimum Wage Is Meaningless (and Here\u2019s What You Can Do About It) &#8211; August 12, 2015 11:53 am &#8220;It\u2019s a sad fact that bullshit travels faster than truth on the internet, but if we all work together, we can stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,165],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greenbergs-law-of-counterproductive-behavior","7":"category-greenbergs-law-of-the-media","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21541,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions\/21541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}