The minimum wage increase in Seattle didn't cause ANY thing like the problems you people claim
Wrong again my good friend. But you thrive living in denial, don't you? You'll deny facts, whatever they are if they don't agree with your fantasy world.
Jun 21, 2017, 08:30am
The Problems With A New Study On Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage
Michael Saltsman Contributor
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The UW reports on Seattle's $15 experiment had something for everyone. Unfortunately for the Mayor's office, their conclusions on the early stages of Seattle's $15 wage experiment were not uniformly positive.
The Washington Post reports:
The average hourly wage for workers affected by the increase jumped from $9.96 to $11.14, but wages likely would have increased some anyway due to Seattle's overall economy. Meanwhile, although workers were earning more, fewer of them had a job than would have without an increase. Those who did work had fewer hours than they would have without the wage hike.
Nuanced conclusions like this one don't lend themselves to
celebratory press releases like the one the Mayor's office put out yesterday. Enter the Berkeley team, which always arrives at the same positive conclusion on minimum wage no matter the number: In their view, a higher minimum wage is always a good thing.
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Yet the anecdotal evidence in Seattle backs up the empirical data provided by the UW team. Local restaurant owners of establishments
such as Louisa's Cafe and
z Pizza have shut down, citing the cost of the minimum wage law as a factor. Karam Mann, a franchisee who owns a Subway location with his wife Heidi, has cut his staffing levels from seven employees down to three.
The wage floor is still rising in Seattle, and there are more chapters to write on the city's minimum wage experiment. But if accuracy if the goal, the Berkeley team is not the right choice to author them.
The Problems With A New Study On Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage
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A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle’s $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals
By
Max Ehrenfreund
June 26, 2017
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On the whole, the study estimates, the average low-wage worker in the city lost $125 a month because of the hike in the minimum.
The paper's conclusions contradict years of research on the minimum wage. Many past studies, by contrast, have found that the benefits of increases for low-wage workers exceed the costs in terms of reduced employment -- often by a factor of four or five to one.
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One way of explaining the disagreement could be that small businesses in Seattle have been forced to downsize in response to the increased minimum wage, while larger firms have expanded.
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Analysis | A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle’s $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals
