Proponents of the minimum wage often cite it as a tool to uplift people from poverty. While most of these people have good intentions, their economic ignorance crushes economies in some places.
Influenced by the idiotic idea that the state can lift people out of economic turmoil, many states and cities are enacting laws that increase the minimum wage for their area. Seattle is one of these places.
Supporters of the new minimum wage expected it to give the support needed for the poor to lift themselves out of poverty and no longer use the state’s services helping them.
What actually happened will shock you.
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Am I suppose to be shocked?
Liberal pipe dream to get more union dues.
Liberal democrats enough said.
Common sense told us this was going to happen . now cali and ny are doing this to . there trying to finish off the mom and pop shops .
Not if this stays legal.
If they had any smarts at all they would have figured out that it don’t work . You know I worked a lot of minimum wage jobs and if I could not afford some things I did with out. Eventually things got better . I worked up to better jobs.
It’s what they voted for.
Just about anyone with a brain could have told you that it would bring around bad things.
High school drop outs will soon make as much as college graduates.
That is what those people like let them deal with it, that is what is wrong with this country, They Don,t Use Their Heads and THINK