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Seattle Restaurants Suffer Worse Job Loss Since The Great Recession
Daily Caller ^ | 07/10/2015 | Connor Wolf

Posted on 08/10/2015 10:16:58 AM PDT by aimhigh

According to a report released Sunday by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the $15 minimum wage has caused Seattle restaurants to lose 1,000 jobs — the worst decline since the 2009 Great Recession.

“The loss of 1,000 restaurant jobs in May following the minimum wage increase in April was the largest one month job decline since a 1,300 drop in January 2009, again during the Great Recession,” AEI Scholar Mark J. Perry noted in the report.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: jobs; minimumwage; restaurants; seattle; washington
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To: dfwgator
Mike Judge is a genius. The best thing about Idiocracy is it is now a documentary.
41 posted on 08/10/2015 11:30:01 AM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: aimhigh
Gee, Seattle businesses are in the tank because the Seattle politicians INCREASED the costs of doing business for all businesses by mandating $15 per hour minimum wages? What on God's green Earth do politicians know about running ANY business? They have no clue. Labor is the most expensive component a business has and costs of business must be kept under control so that everyone gets paid, products delivered, vendors paid, and a profit is made. Skew the cost of doing business by unfunded mandate and the business owner only has a few ways to react: cut benefits, cut hours, cut staff, raise prices, automate, move his business, or go out of business. It IS really that simple, you political fools.
42 posted on 08/10/2015 11:30:06 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 ( Barbara Daly Danko)
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To: dfwgator

Ping


43 posted on 08/10/2015 11:34:01 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: prof.h.mandingo

“The best thing about Idiocracy is it is now a documentary.”

You’re behind the times IDIOCRACY is actually now a nostalgic movie about how great things USED to be, the good old days as it were.


44 posted on 08/10/2015 11:50:41 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: IMR 4350

e.g. San Francisco


45 posted on 08/10/2015 11:51:07 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Have you ever noticed in the movies the left wingers out of Hollywood come up with the elite living in the cities in lives of luxury while everyone else around them, the people serving them, live in poverty are always portrayed as right wing extremist.

In reality it’s the left wingers that have the dream of living a life of luxury while everyone else around them serving them lives in poverty.


46 posted on 08/10/2015 12:58:21 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: dfwgator

Not so loud, you’ll give them ideas!


47 posted on 08/10/2015 2:40:12 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Yes Ma'am, I said I'd like three sides of bacon with my eggs. and bacon.)
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To: Made In The USA

You think they don’t already know?


48 posted on 08/10/2015 2:42:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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