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Seattle’s minimum wage increase deals a blow to yet another Republican scare tactic

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

Here’s yet another study that punctures all those scare tactics about what will happen when the minimum wage is raised. Seattle’s minimum wage for large employers went to $13 an hour in 2016—and a recent study from the University of Washington School of Public Health finds that the increase didn’t affect grocery prices in the city: Otten and colleagues …

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Seattle’s $15 minimum wage raised pay with zero effect on restaurant jobs, new study shows

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

Raising the minimum wage does not kill jobs, no matter what Republicans tell you—and a new study of the Seattle restaurant industry, where some businesses are already paying a $15 minimum wage, provides another data point showing just that. According to the University of California, Berkeley, study, the increased minimum wage had employment effects that were …

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Not Winging It, a Deal in Vegas, and a Scary Bridge

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

A $15 minimum wage for Seattle has been in the works for a while, and now the City Council has made it official: The unanimous vote of the nine-member Council, after months of discussion by a committee of business and labor leaders convened by Mayor Ed Murray, will give low-wage workers here — in incremental stages, with different …

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VICTORY: Seattle Raises the City’s Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour

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Amazing news out of Washington state today, as the city of Seattle announced that they are raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. There are currently 102,000 workers in Seattle earning less than $15 an hour. This wage increase will put hundreds of millions dollars into the pockets of working-class families that they will invest back …

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The ‘It Will Hurt Businesses’ Argument Against Sick Leave Takes a Hit in Seattle

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A few American cities (and one state—go, Connecticut!) have started catching up with the rest of the world when it comes to paid sick leave laws. But despite those cities and state and huge number of other countries embracing the notion that sick people should be able to stay home from work, you still hear …

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Seattle’s minimum wage increase deals a blow to yet another Republican scare tactic

Seattle’s $15 minimum wage raised pay with zero effect on restaurant jobs, new study shows

Not Winging It, a Deal in Vegas, and a Scary Bridge

VICTORY: Seattle Raises the City’s Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour

The ‘It Will Hurt Businesses’ Argument Against Sick Leave Takes a Hit in Seattle

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