New Study Finds Seattles $15 Minimum Wage Achieved itsGoal
If you live in Seattle, you can clearly see the economy booming all around you. We have more restaurants than at any time in our history, our regional unemployment rate is lower than it’s been in nearly a decade, and restaurateurs are paying even higher than the minimum wage in order to attract skilled workers.
Damn you, $15 an hour minimum wage!
Over the weekend, Seattle Times reporters Janet I. Tu, Rachel Lerman and Dominic Gates wrote a story titled “Heated local economy has employers working hard to fill jobs.” When Seattle’s increased minimum wage was first proposed, members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Restaurant and Hotel Association warned us that Seattleites might have to leave the city in order to eat at restaurants that haven’t closed due to higher wages. (Because driving all the way to Bellevue every time you feel like eating a steak for lunch is a perfectly logical thing that Seattleites do all the time.)
On the contrary, the Seattle Times story argues, Seattle’s higher minimum wage is actually forcing surrounding communities to raise their minimum wage to match ours.
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