Minimum Wage and Job Loss: One Alarming Seattle Study Is Not the Last Word - The New York Times

Seattle was the first city in the United States to raise the minimum wage substantially, so a University of Washington study released last month showing big job losses has received a lot of attention, and prompted many an I-told-you-so. The job losses in the study were far greater than in a control group of similar areas in Washington State (where the minimum wage was not raised).

Because the study found that low-wage workers lost income as a result of the increase, it was a much more dire assessment of the effects of a minimum-wage increase than even the more pessimistic studies to date....
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