For supposedly educated people they seem to miss the big picture that a couple of small sample size studies cannot show,people only have so much disposable income if they must pay more for a product as their meals/movies etc.will have to go up to provide these wages then they just go out less buy less so the employers have less people employed and will probably cut out the younger entry level workers first.Being economists and thinking you can create more disposable income out of thin air shows me they and their progressives friends missed many classes in common sense.