Here's The PROOF: The Minimum Wage is a Job KILLER

For liberals,  facts are fuzzy things.

For the rest of us, they matter.

Take the issue of the minimum wage. Conservatives have long argued that dramatically raising the minimum wage kills jobs. Liberals tell us this just isn’t true. So let’s look at the facts.

Recently, Washington D.C., Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago raised their minimum wage. Advocates told us the results would be benign. Not so, according to Investor’s Business Daily.

In Washington D.C., which has been struggling to reduce their 6.6 percent unemployment rate, they raised the minimum wage to $10.50 per hour. In July it will go up again to $11.50.

The job growth of 3 percent they experienced in 2014 dropped to zero last year when the minimum wage increased.

In Chicago, they experienced their weakest year of job growth in six years. The minimum wage rose to $10 per hour in July. The following quarter, job growth slowed to only 1.1 percent – half of what it was the year before. The numbers are likely even worse, as the figures represent the entire Chicago metro area and the minimum wage only went into effect in Chicago.

The Bay Area cities of Oakland and San Francisco experienced a 4.7 percent job growth in 2014. Early in 2015, they jointly raised their minimum wage to $12.25 per hour. How did jobs do after that? Much worse. Employment gains in the “leisure and hospitality” sector – where most minimum wage jobs are – were cut in half to 2.5 percent while jobs in other sectors rose at almost twice that rate.

It’ll get worse for the Bay Area – the minimum wage will keep rising up to $13 per hour this summer.

In Los Angeles, their minimum wage rose to record-high levels – $15.37 per hour for many jobs with a county-wide increase to that level by 2020. How did they do? Job growth in that sector dropped by 0.8 percent.

Seattle is a similar story. Restaurant employment rose only 1.8 percent from one year ago, compared to a healthy 4.6 percent job growth the year prior. The rest of the state – where the minimum wage didnotincrease – saw employment rise by 6.3 percent. Seattle recently raise the minimum wage from $9.47 per hour to $11 per hour.

The truth hurts, libs – so does raising the minimum wage.