So Much For High Minimum Wage Destroying Jobs

[Dana7360]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

 

[Wyatt earp]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

See you are making a fool out of yourself, Seattle new minimum wage law kicks in stages, $15 for large companys in 4 years, small companys in 7 years, go back to eating lead paint.

As it is if you bother to read the news, one resterauant, got rid of tips and imediately went to $15 bucks an hour while raising it's prices up 21%

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

$15.00 an hour is barely a living wage, if at all; self-sufficiency in most states is $25.00 an hour.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

OP can't read.

 

[Mac1958]

There is an epidemic of this country of people who have convinced themselves that they understand the art and science of business economics with zero background in it.

They look at one data point and figure they've got it nailed.

.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Let's give the dishwashers $100 per hour so we'll enjoy full employment.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

$15.00 an hour is barely a living wage, if at all; self-sufficiency in most states is $25.00 an hour.

NEWSFLASH ! Minimum wage was never intended to be a "living wage".

 

[DigitalDrifter]

By the way, I don't have a problem with islands like Seattle trying this out. If they can make it work let them go for it.
Businesses and consumers can react with the marketplace, and take their business outside the zone if they so choose.

The problem is liberals are working hard to make this a federal law. This is where the real danger lies.

 

[August West]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

$15.00 an hour is barely a living wage, if at all; self-sufficiency in most states is $25.00 an hour.

NEWSFLASH ! Minimum wage was never intended to be a "living wage".

Because you said so? A 40 hour work week should earn a person a livable wage and in case you haven`t noticed, the elites have been taking the good jobs out of this country for the past 30 years or so. It`s tough to compete with people making $2 an hour.

 

[skookerasbil]

Oh Gawd.......not this shit again??!!

 

[iamwhatiseem]

For the life of me I can't see how liberals cannot see that whole reason why this minimum wage "problem" is even brought up is only a symptom of the real problem that they are too stupid to understand.
The problem is not minimum wage. The problem is so many good paying jobs have went overseas, eliminated by technology and eliminated by a HUGE rise in consolidations.
THAT is the problem - not minimum wage. But that adults are now working min. wage because there are no good jons left for them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

$15.00 an hour is barely a living wage, if at all; self-sufficiency in most states is $25.00 an hour.

^ Fucking patsy for corporations. Minimum wage should be $75,000 a year.

The second amendment is the only thing getting in the way of bringing our workers paradise to America.

/sarcasm

You fucking morons tank every economy you touch irrespective of size or scope. At some point you need to realize your ideas SUCK!!!! JUST FUCKING SUCK!!! They've never worked and only make it worse for everyone except for the rulers

 

[DigitalDrifter]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

$15.00 an hour is barely a living wage, if at all; self-sufficiency in most states is $25.00 an hour.

NEWSFLASH ! Minimum wage was never intended to be a "living wage".

Because you said so? A 40 hour work week should earn a person a livable wage and in case you haven`t noticed, the elites have been taking the good jobs out of this country for the past 30 years or so. It`s tough to compete with people making $2 an hour.

And the reason those jobs left is exactly due to higher minimum wages.

We're now stuck with nothing more than the service industry as the main entry level jobs and they're simply not worthy of living wages.
The idea is you enter the workforce and with education and time you move on to jobs where the real money is.

 

[mudwhistle]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

The rest of the state's unemployment is twice that.....

 

[chikenwing]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county nice try but you fall short,the number of min wage jibs isn't large enough so you don't see it effect the over all employment numbers much,trying g to say there should high unemoyment it kinda funny,now if you talk to some that does lose their job or get hour cut you might have somthing

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Santa Fe raised their minimum wage and the law of unintended consequence now has a couple who both earn minimum wage as overqualified and therefore ineligible for affordable housing

 

[Anathema]

For the life of me I can't see how liberals cannot see that whole reason why this minimum wage "problem" is even brought up is only a symptom of the real problem that they are too stupid to understand.
The problem is not minimum wage. The problem is so many good paying jobs have went overseas, eliminated by technology and eliminated by a HUGE rise in consolidations.
THAT is the problem - not minimum wage. But that adults are now working min. wage because there are no good jons left for them.

That is PART of the problem. The other part is the combination of a high number of under-educated and unskilled people who expect yo be paid a living wage while providing no measurable benefit to their employer and over-educated individuals who think their Masters Degree in Communications from Ha-vud somehow entitles them to a 6 figure income despite having no meaningful work skills.

 

[August West]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

$15.00 an hour is barely a living wage, if at all; self-sufficiency in most states is $25.00 an hour.

NEWSFLASH ! Minimum wage was never intended to be a "living wage".

Because you said so? A 40 hour work week should earn a person a livable wage and in case you haven`t noticed, the elites have been taking the good jobs out of this country for the past 30 years or so. It`s tough to compete with people making $2 an hour.

And the reason those jobs left is exactly due to higher minimum wages.

We're now stuck with nothing more than the service industry as the main entry level jobs and they're simply not worthy of living wages.
The idea is you enter the workforce and with education and time you move on to jobs where the real money is.

There aren`t many places where you can make "real money". You want to penalize people for not having a college degree? Do you know you`re subsidizing those low wages with food stamps? The ultra wealthy Walton family sure knows how to pick the pockets of easily played taxpayers.

 

[Wyatt earp]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

$15.00 an hour is barely a living wage, if at all; self-sufficiency in most states is $25.00 an hour.

NEWSFLASH ! Minimum wage was never intended to be a "living wage".

Because you said so? A 40 hour work week should earn a person a livable wage and in case you haven`t noticed, the elites have been taking the good jobs out of this country for the past 30 years or so. It`s tough to compete with people making $2 an hour.

I could live as good on $10 bucks an hour as I do on making $75,000 a year. Just by less Crap I don't need, dump the cell phone Bill, don't use A/C etc...etc... You ever here of thrift stores and coupons ?

 

[Brain357]

How many posts have there been saying that Seattle would lose jobs since wages were raised to $10.32 an hour in April?

The rest of the state has a minimum wage of 9.32 with the exception of the city of Seatac where the minimum wage is 15.00 an hour. Seatac is in King county.

How many posts are there saying high minimum wage kills jobs?

If that were true then Seattle, the King, Snohomish counties would be seeing high unemployment.

Which has not happened.

Instead in King County, where Seattle is, the unemployment rate is 3.3%. In Snohomish County the unemployment rate is 3.6%

So while conservatives scream about high wages destroying jobs, the facts prove the exact opposite.
Map of County Unemployment Rates

It's amazing how there are no examples of these lost jobs even though min wage has increased many times.