{"id":65922,"date":"2018-02-12T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65922"},"modified":"2019-05-21T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:55:06","slug":"more-unexpected-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65922","title":{"rendered":"More Unexpected Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian province of Ontario &#8211; which includes Toronto and, Ontario natives tell me, a major city named &#8220;Tronna&#8221; &#8211; raised its minimum wage in January.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coincidentally<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-jobs-update-losses-minimum-wage-1.4528669\">nearly 3% of the province&#8217;s part time jobs evaporated<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<em>that very month<\/em>.\u00a0 Unexpectedly!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It gained approximately 8,500 full-time positions but lost roughly 59,300 part-time gigs, according to data provided by the<br \/>\nagency, which noted the figures are rounded.<\/p>\n<p>That means there was 3.4 per cent or 46,100 fewer part-time posts in January 2018 than the same time the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Some economists said it&#8217;s possible Ontario&#8217;s minimum wage increase played a role in those declines, but noted it&#8217;s important not to read too much into one month of data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s important not to impugn the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the economists are graduates of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65911\">Feminist Business School<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian province of Ontario &#8211; which includes Toronto and, Ontario natives tell me, a major city named &#8220;Tronna&#8221; &#8211; raised its minimum wage in January. Coincidentally, nearly 3% of the province&#8217;s part time jobs evaporated\u00a0\u00a0that very month.\u00a0 Unexpectedly!: It gained approximately 8,500 full-time positions but lost roughly 59,300 part-time gigs, according to data provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-65922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-unexpected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65926,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65922\/revisions\/65926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}