MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO THE RESEARCH - YOU ARE THE ONE
WHO IS FOS. NO NEVER MIND - ITS MUCH EASIER BEING A LAZY IGNORANT
CON WHO JUST REGURGITATES WHAT HE HEARS FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN
PROPAGANDA MACHINE.
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/is-seattles-minimum-wage-killing-jobs/
Food Service?????? Are you fvcking kidding me??? Is that the measure of liberal success. Waiter jobs?????????
This isn't con data.......It's precious liberal govt data. Interestingly enough. Employment outside Seattle city limits is growing.......shocker.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog..._that_15_minimum_wage_working_out_for_ya.html
Seattle’s monthly employment, the number of unemployed workers, and the city’s unemployment rate through December 2015 suggest that since last April when the first minimum wage hike took effect:
a) the city’s employment has fallen by more than 11,000, b) the number of unemployed workers has risen by nearly 5,000, and c) the city’s jobless rate has increased by more than 1 percentage point (all based on BLS’s “not seasonally adjusted basis”). Those figures are based on
employment data for the city of Seattle only (not the Seattle MSA or MD), and are available from the
BLS website here (data are “not seasonally adjusted”).
How can we be sure that the increase in minimum wage is to blame? Employment in the neighboring suburbs of the city have hit a record high:
Update: The chart below shows that while the city of Seattle experienced a sharp drop in employment of more than 11,000 jobs between April and December last year (light blue line, BLS data
available here), employment in Seattle’s neighboring suburbs outside the city limits (the Seattle MSA jobs less Seattle city jobs) increased over that period by nearly 57,000 jobs and reached a new record high in November 2015 before falling slightly in December.
Bottom Line II: Additional evidence showing that while jobs in the city of Seattle were tanking starting last April, employment in the suburbs surrounding Seattle was increasing steadily to a new record high in November. That departure in employment trends: job declines inside the city limits of Seattle compared to increasing employment outside the city limits suggests the possibility that the difference in labor costs could have been a contributing factor.