3 years later: Seattle 15/h Minimum wage recap

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it's not 15 dollars yet


and this

"Tegegne Desta Yigzaw is bringing home larger paychecks.

Yigzaw began earning $13 per hour Jan. 1 at his 40-hour-a week job at a parking garage in South Lake Union. When he started working there 10 years ago, he was making only $8 per hour."




is just :snoop:
Work at a parking garage for 10 years brehs :francis:
 

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Don't make it national policy. States and cities can do whatever they like.

Most of the country can't support a $15 wage.

Oh, and the article states several times theres no data:

The UW researchers plan to release a detailed analysis in June of how wages, hours and jobs have been impacted since the ordinance took effect last April. They will analyze data from the state’s Employment Security Department, which tracks wages and hours for each worker in the state, as well as tax filings.

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The lack of precise data hasn’t stopped outside observers from drawing conclusions.

:stopitslime:

Yup abolish the federal minimum wage and let individual states/cities decide
 

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so brehs who were saying this would be an apocalypse were totally right

I saw some pics of Seattle and it looks like Detroit

Businesses could not afford the increase, brehs were right.

Seattle is a total mess and...








A year in, ‘the sky is not falling’ from Seattle’s minimum-wage hike











:mjlol: hold your L and dont let me find that thread and tag you morons.
I was at my desk yesterday and heard my supervisor and someone else trying to argue those bullshyt talking points was about to go in they was lucky I was busy might bring this up on Tuesday.
 

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CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN IN MEAT HEAD WRESTLER TERMS WHY THE MINIMUM WAGE SHOULDN'T JUST BE TIED TO INFLATION, BROTHER?

It should be tied to inflation and to a Cost Of Living Index (like the military does for housing allowances).

$15/hr in New York City/San Fran and $15/hr in BumfukkEgypt, Wyoming are 2 different wages.
 

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When has the issue ever been local?

The argument has always been about federal min wage, nobody cares what cities decide to do :stopitslime:
 

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If raising the minimum wage has absolute no effect on the labor market, then we should start re-writing the text books on micro economics. Economics is built on the concept of supply and demand--it's most simple mathematical model.


That means the theory of the marginal utility of labor is wrong, and the theory of demand is basically also wrong too. I mean none of the employees go their hours cut, and none of the employers cut their labor force?

Or were the employers able to pass the increase costs onto the consumers with higher prices? That's another theory of economics that is proven to be wrong--- in a highly competitive environment firms take the market price as given.


Don't teachers make 40k on average? Seems pretty pointless to spend 4 years in school just to make 10k more than someone with no education.

Why not make the minimum wage 20 dollars or 30 dollars an hour? Then to make things even more equal lets put a maximum wage on engineers and other overly paid STEM majors at around 100k. Seems fair to me.
 

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Work at a parking garage for 10 years brehs :francis:
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this is the real problem here. minimum wage jobs are supposed to be a temporary thing while you get something else going. you're not supposed to try to buy a house and feed 2 brats off a god damn fast food or parking lot job



also this
A 31-year-old woman who works part time at a Dollar Tree store in Seattle’s University District said the bump to $13 in January has helped her pay her rent and not have to visit the food bank as often.

$13 to work at Dollar Tree? :dahell:
 

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:patrice: Its not the end of the world..it will just mean one less employee...the first to go will be the guy standing at the second cash register

Supporters of a $15 minimum wage are about to get a heaping helping of reality.

Self-service kiosks will be made available to the more than 6,000 Wendy’s franchises in the United States, the company announced on Thursday. Individual restaurant managers will decide whether to install them as an alternative to having human beings take customers’ orders.


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BEEP BOOP CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDER: Automated ordering machines, like these at a McDonald’s in Spain, are coming to the United States as a response to higher minimum wages.

According to Investors Business Daily, which reported the news, Wendy’s executives said the decision was driven by a tight labor market and higher minimum wages in many states.

After all, a computer kiosk doesn’t need to be paid $15 an hour to take orders.

Wendy’s President Todd Penegor told IBD that franchise locations have been raising prices to offset wage hikes and said the company is wary about both wage hikes and a possible recovery in commodity prices and is “working so hard to find efficiencies.”
 

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the future looks scary if you do not have a back up plan or something. situation might be like that film where they eat the slime stuff. i think it is called soylent green.

i thought these white people figured it out. marijuana is legalized in that state. i read articles saying that the economy is booming due to the marijuana industry. what is going on?
 
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