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To: combjelly who wrote (10497)	2/12/2017 11:53:52 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364937

Labor officials said about 19,000 Kansans were making below the federal minimum wage. 1 - 19,000 out of just under 2.9 million then (just over 2.9 million now). Its not exactly shocking that forcing wages up for a group that small didn't noticeably harm the overall economy. Also there still isn't any clear indication that wages were forced up for a group anywhere near even that small figure (see the next three points) 2 - How many of those 19,000 were actually getting under $7.25? Just because your not covered by a minimum wage law doesn't mean your making less than you would if you were covered. Any of the 19k already making $7.25 or above would not have been directly impacted by the state minimum wage increase. 3 - For the subset of those 19,000 (if any) that were getting less than $7.25/h, how many continued to get less than $7.25? Current Kansas minimum wage law parallels federal minimum wage law, giving lower minimums for tipped employees, young trainees for up to 90 days, and young full time students for up to 20 hours a week. Tipped employees (the biggest group) can get $2.13 an hour in wages. Kansas raising its minimum wage didn't change that. 4 - Just because the overall economy didn't go in to a tailspin, doesn't mean there were not workers on the margin who didn't lose their jobs or have other negative results of the increase. For any left (after subtracting those who already made over $7.25/h and/or qualified for some other exemption that remained after the state increase), how many kept their jobs and didn't have their hours cut? Only those people saw a real increase. Now who is making stuff up? You, when you said Kansas was exempt from the federal minimum wage.