As more states, and even some cities, have inched their wages up at different rates in the last two decades, job loss does happen in places with higher minimum wages among the
very people who are the hardest to employ, according to Richard Valentine Burkhauser, a professor in Cornell University's College of Human Ecology and an adjunct
scholar at the
conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
Word was that a
scholar at the Heritage Institute, a
very politically
conservative think tank supported by the infamous Koch brothers, had caused some of the delay on this particular appointment.