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Job Loss at $15 an Hour: Real Problem or Big Whopper?
By EOI Board Member Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research The fast food industry has put its lobbyists into hyper-drive. Their concern is the growing public support for...
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Economic Impact Analysis: SeaTac’s Prop.1 Would Boost Economy and Create Jobs
Puget Sound Sage Puget Sound Sage recently released a new report examining the economic impact of SeaTac’s living wage initiative, Proposition 1. Click here for a copy of the press release. According...
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Mayor Ed Murray will give his inaugural State of the City address on Tuesday. While it’s still unclear whether he’ll mention the push to raise the minimum wage, folks on the local, state, and even...
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A Pragmatic Approach to a Fair Minimum Wage
People who toil away at jobs we all depend on shouldn’t live in poverty. But would a $15 minimum wage work in Seattle? Here’s a look past the rhetoric at what the research shows. Washington’s minimum...
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Reconciling Anecdote and Data in the Minimum Wage Debate
Photo via Lee Coursey on Flickr Last Monday, several of us headed out after work to celebrate with our intern who had just passed her PH.D. qualifying exams. But when we reached the bar we’d chosen, we...
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Two invisible – but very real – opponents of Seattle’s $15 minimum wage
Hyperbole and fear are behind much of the opposition to the minimum wage. They need to be dealt with differently. When Seattle’s paid sick days law was first proposed, some opponents reacted by saying...
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