Your argument is suprisingly illogical in its most basic foundations.
I said that raising minimum wage will cause unemployment and even if states with higher minimum wages have more people employed this would fit just dandy with my statement. Obviously the opposite is most likley true, because areas where the employers can only afford to pay minimum wage would then also most likley have a hard time affording new employees.
Essentially what you are doing is twisting my argument to say that there is a direct correlation between minimum wage and employment with no other factors involved, which again is suprising as you are far smarter than to go ahead and say something like that when you probably know I, and noone with an iota of intelligence, would suggest that. There is no single direct correlation with employment and I said raising minimum wage raised unemplyment, which means each individual states original unemployment could be highly different from the others and so would the end unemployment.
In my state you would be hard pressed to find an employer not voluntarily paying at least 7.50 an hour and it is easy as hell to get a job. Raising the minimum wage would actually put Eastern European seasonal workers out of jobs most likley, because they tend to get paid they very least (around 6 an hour) out of everyone and often slack at their jobs for whatever reason. I doubt any organization keeping track of minimum wage here would count those seasonal employees or care about them since they are not permanent citizens.
And now for the graphs!:
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