Study: Seattle Minimum Wage Increase Reduced Low-Wage Income

[Wedge_Antilles]

weeklystandard.com/study-seattle-minimum-wage-increase-reduced-low-wage-income/article/2008628

*The “Fight for $15” suffered a hit with the release of a study that hints at the negative effect that Seattle’s dramatic minimum wage increase has led to reduced wages for low-income workers.

Besides Seattle, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have all passed laws phasing in a $15 minimum wage, and Bernie Sanders made that benchmark a cornerstone of his campaign. Dozens of cities and states are raising their minimum wage this year, though not all are phasing in wages as high as $15 an hour.

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Shocking. Way to take care of your citizenry and pretend you care for the poor, Seattle.

 

[lmachine]

The study hasn’t passed peer review and has strangely omitted large employers from its analysis.

 

[Wedge_Antilles]

The study hasn’t passed peer review and has strangely omitted large employers from its analysis.

I’m sure there is data to support the opposite of this study, then.

 

[J_Peterson]

I’m sure there is data to support the opposite of this study, then.

There is another study done by the city (I think). Don’t know how credible it is vs. this one.

 

[po18guy]

Economics 101. Socialist wishful thinking does not a wealthy populace or a healthy economy make.

Such “progressive” thinking supports boycotts of clothing factories in Bangladesh. Far better for those workers to be begging in the streets or becoming prostitutes than working for a living.

The compassion of liberalism.

 

[Regular_Atheist]

Such “progressive” thinking supports boycotts of clothing factories in Bangladesh. Far better for those workers to be begging in the streets or becoming prostitutes than working for a living.

Wouldn’t it be more desirable for those people to neither work in a sweatshop nor sell themselves on the street?

Humans, seemingly, are able to consciously decide how we organize our relations of production. Certainly we produce enough, or have the means to produce enough, to ensure a good standard of living for everyone and ensure nobody has to work and live in terrible conditions. What alien force external to us prevents us from achieving this? What is this economics that seems to deny us the ability to organize our society in such a way that it can provide for everyone? Why are we denied the ability to rationally organize our production in a way that can fulfill everyone?

 

[upant]

The study hasn’t passed peer review and has strangely omitted large employers from its analysis.

yeah, but…

But it is going to be hard to dismiss, according to the Washington Post:

 

[JimG]

Some politically progressive business owners are ambivalent.

“This is not a political issue,” says Heather Bray, co-owner of The Lowbrow. “I am a proud, proud progressive…All we’re talking about is basic arithmetic. The arithmetic doesn’t work. People will not continue to go to budget-conscience restaurants when they’re no longer budget conscious.”


When progressive business owners oppose the $15 minimum wage.