Seattle's Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City's Own Study Confirms
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RR Phantom
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Subject: Seattle's Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City's Own Study Confirms Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:47 pm
How Seattle provides a practical example of minimum wages leading to losses in income and employment.
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study, a study supported and funded in part by the Seattle city government, is out with a new NBER paper evaluating Seattleās minimum wage increase to $13 an hour and it finds significant disemployment effects that on net reduce the incomes of minimum wage workers. I farm this one out to Jonathan Meer on FB.