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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The $15 minimum wage increase in the Seattle area “got off to a pretty bad start,” according to a report. Data shows that the Seattle Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) lost 700 restaurant jobs from January 2015 to September 2015, and a report from the American Enterprise Institute indicates that this is the product of adverse effects of minimum wage hikes on restaurant jobs.
Sucks to be them but they brought this on themselves
It’s not the $15 it’s the money wasted on illegal immigrants
Of course it was disastrous, anyone with an IQ out of single digits could have told them that.
Imagine that….
of course it would dummy
I live in Washington state…on east side where we believe in God, country, flag and family. We are NOT the liberal side. There is no hope for the liberal thinking on the west side of the state. Liberals run amuck, only their ideas matter. Eastern washington-california……the same.
California is extremely liberal….so if Eastern Wash. is Conservative…..I don’t get your ” Eastern washington-california……the same” part of your post. ??
Boycotting, selling their stock, etc,… People go about all this the wrong way!
Trump told you it was bad