Seattle commissions new minimum-wage study after dismissing first results

Seattle sought report confirming minimum wage benefits


When a University of Washington study came out this week showing Seattle’s minimum wage has cost 5,000 jobs and is hurting low income workers, city leaders attacked the messenger –- a team of respected economists at Washington’s premiere public university.

The researchers, led by Jacob Vigdor, were hired by the city in 2014 to study the effects of Seattle’s $15 wage experiment. The contract called for five years of research. City officials stopped funding the UW team when they didn’t like the results.

“The moment we saw it was based on flawed methodology and was going to be unreliable, the Vigdor study no longer speaks for City Hall,” said Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.

Sawant, a former economics professor at Seattle Central Community College who ran for office as a Socialist, accused the UW team of “ideologically editorializing." She and Mayor Ed Murray then contacted Michael Reich, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

Reich is currently co-chair of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Before earning his PhD in economics from Harvard, Reich was a founding member of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), a group seeking a "human-centered radical alternative to capitalism," according to its website.

Reich has authored several studies on the effects of raising the minimum wage. They all concluded that increasing the minimum wage only helps low-skilled workers.

As soon as Seattle politicians knew the University of Washington study found raising Seattle’s minimum wage from $11 to $13 an hour led to a 9-percent cut in hours worked and an average of $125 less earned each month, they commissioned Reich to do his own study and then criticized UW’s research.

According to emails obtained by Fox News, Reich was given a deadline by Murray. His work was to be completed just before the University of Washington team announced its results. Vigdor, the director of the study, shared with city council staffers the preliminary results of the research and provided a timeline for when it would be made public.

Kshama Sawant also tried to force the Seahawks to sign Kapernick.

lol, tards...

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"It's science!"

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Isn't Murray the gay mayor who had to resign?

Don't worry about liberal states progressing and testing and looking for balance.

That's none of your business. You are beneath that type of advanced society. You just focus on destroying everything you touch.

Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Don't worry about liberal states progressing and
> testing and looking for balance.
>
> That's none of your business. You are beneath
> that type of advanced society. You just focus on
> destroying everything you touch.

She suggested seizing Boeing. Lots of folks in Seattle work for, or own stock in, Boeing, so this was very well received. She is regarded by most Seattlites, even most liberal ones, as mentally deranged and a communist. She's mostly in office for entertainment value...

Nobody wants to buy Boeing planes made in South Carolina. Because southerners make shitty airplanes. Seriously, they have proven to be of much less quality. We can thank west coast liberals for Boeing's greatness.

Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Nobody wants to buy Boeing planes made in South
> Carolina. Because southerners make shitty
> airplanes. Seriously, they have proven to be of
> much less quality. We can thank west coast
> liberals for Boeing's greatness.


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The best way to keep poor people and uneducated niggers down is to elect socialists and liberals.

Malcolm Xtra Black Wrote:
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> The best way to keep poor people and uneducated
> niggers down is to elect socialists and liberals.

This is fact.