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Study: Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike Hurting Hours, Employment
U.S. News & World Report ^ | June 26, 2017 | By Andrew Soergel, Economy Reporter

Posted on 06/26/2017 12:37:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A new minimum wage study suggests Seattle's quest for a $15 minimum wage may not be completely painless.

Not all is rosy in Seattle as the city gradually pushes to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, according to a new study that suggests hiring and the number of hours worked among lower-wage employees took a hit last year as minimum pay rose.

The National Bureau of Economic Research unveiled a working paper on Monday that found the number of hours worked in low-skill professions dropped more than 9 percent in Seattle during the first three quarters of last year, while low-wage jobs declined by 6.8 percent, or by more than 5,000 positions.

That all coincides with Seattle raising its minimum wage to $13 per hour in 2016 amid the city's gradual push to boost floor-level pay to $15. The University of Washington researchers who authored the study pointed to this wage increase as the root cause of the hourly and employment declines.

Indeed, the study found that the net cons of the minimum wage uptick outweighed the pros by a measure of three-to-one and that low-wage workers lost an average of $125 per month as a result of the ordinance, which increased hourly wages by 3 percent while dragging on payroll totals and hours worked.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bluezones; duh; econ101; layoffs; marxism; minimumwage; socialism; stevebannon
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1 posted on 06/26/2017 12:37:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Left has been trying and failing to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand for a century.


2 posted on 06/26/2017 12:40:30 PM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Post modernist Commies don’t care.


3 posted on 06/26/2017 12:41:36 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nothing here that implementing robots to replace the workers couldn’t fix.


4 posted on 06/26/2017 12:42:20 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never saw that coming. Duh.

My guess is that paid off the books workers has increased dramatically too. Next we’ll see an article wondering why tax withholdings have decreased.......


5 posted on 06/26/2017 12:42:35 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee no kidding. Who would of thought


6 posted on 06/26/2017 12:43:32 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other breaking news, study indicates that water is wet and that fire is hot. More tax dollars are needed to complete the study.

7 posted on 06/26/2017 12:43:37 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: jalisco555

I seem to remember an ad being published a couple of years ago offering 9 or 10 bucks an hour to join the ‘fight’ for a 15 buck min wage....


8 posted on 06/26/2017 12:43:42 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Thinking is the hardest work there is-probably why so few people engage in it. H. Ford")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee. Nobody saw this coming..... /sarc


9 posted on 06/26/2017 12:45:15 PM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Paging Kshama Sawant...


10 posted on 06/26/2017 12:45:36 PM PDT by CityCenter (Words have specific meanings.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s make it $1500 NOW.


11 posted on 06/26/2017 12:47:21 PM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They needed a “study” for this, really?


12 posted on 06/26/2017 12:48:11 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look at all the dumbasses in that picture. They look strong and healthy enough to do better than slinging fries.


13 posted on 06/26/2017 12:49:05 PM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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If the Uni-Party hadn’t flooded the Country with Slave labor, the average wage would probably be about twenty an hour.


14 posted on 06/26/2017 12:52:25 PM PDT by heights
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This happening in a sanctuary city in a sanctuary state.

What are the odds these jobs will be filled with illegals being paid cash under the table?


15 posted on 06/26/2017 12:54:27 PM PDT by sevlex
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Let’s see what happens when fast food restaurants replace the cashiers with electronic self-serve terminals—terminals that are fluent in multiple languages.


16 posted on 06/26/2017 12:57:37 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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MARX AND ENGELS WERE WRONG!!! JUST ADMIT IT!!!!!


17 posted on 06/26/2017 12:57:56 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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Not high in Seattle. All the illegals are over in eastern Washington.


18 posted on 06/26/2017 12:59:01 PM PDT by CityCenter (Words have specific meanings.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seattle could get away with this only because the largest “Seattle” employers - Microsoft, Paccar (Kenworth), Boeing, etc. - are actually in the suburbs such as Redmond, Bellevue, and Renton.


19 posted on 06/26/2017 1:05:52 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whatabuncha morons in that picture!

Anybody ever tell them you don’t demonstrate for higher pay, you work and study for it?

They could ask the UAW people (former workers...) in Madison Tennessee; when they went on strike for higher pay, Peterbilt padlocked the gates and moved *all* production to the (non-union) plant in Denton, Texas.

Which, BTW, already had much greater productivity per worker.


20 posted on 06/26/2017 1:11:54 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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