650 "economists" that believe there should be a minimum wage increase isn't very much. Do you know how many "economists" there are in the world? How about just in my graduating class?

If 650 is all you could find... you need to seriously rethink the strength of your position.

Any economist who paid attention during college could map a regression analysis showing a strong positive correlation between unemployment and minimum wage, or price levels with minimum wage. They probably also paid attention in macro theory when they were told that the demand for labor versus the supply of labor functions almost exactly like the supply and demand of any good.

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