Andylusion
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dear; a fifteen dollar an hour wage means fewer hours for the same amount.How is having to work fewer hours, a bad thing?Ludicrous.
Let me give a little bit of history between me and Bear about this particular subject (MW in Seattle) since I've joined this board. Two of my relatives own 2 seafood restaurants in Seattle, most of them work for the (34) city and Boeing. I can find out how many permits issued, building in process or closed. That said.
Your link are all anti-MW that pick and choose for your convenience. They can print or publish just about anything. You make it sound that Seattle is collapsing bc of MW hike.
Your McDonald's example of $1.59 drink is purely bogus. Most or all customers go to McDonald's for cheap meal. The only way it's cheaper across the street are those little hamburger stand because they have lower over head like 3 or 4 employees & no drive thru ------------ It's NOT because of MW hike. And no matter where you go in America that is always 100% the case------ It's NOT because of MW hike. Most of these hamburger stand do not survive if they are near McDonald's or other large franchises.
BOTTOM LINE-------- Are Seattle businesses suffering because of this MW increased? NO.
Is the economy in Seattle is booming? YES. Unemployment? I will leave that to you.
How many businesses that went bankrupt bc of MW increased?
We already said that. You keep making claims that are not in dispute.
We already said that the economy of Seattle was growing BEFORE the minimum wage hike.
We already said that wages were going up in Seattle BEFORE the minimum wage hike.
If the natural economy is driving up wages above the minimum wage... then we wouldn't expect the minimum wage to have any effect at all.
A clear example, is working at the Wendy's store, in down town Columbus ohio. The STARTING wage at the down town store, is $12.00
The minimum wage is $9. If the city of Columbus raised the minimum wage to $11.00 an hour..... what effect would that have on the employees and employer at the Wendy's down town? None. ZERO. You didn't help anyone, you didn't hurt anyone.
The economy is already pushing wages above the minimum wage, so it has no major effect.
Only the stores that have lower wages would be affected. Because those are a minority... which I already said very few people are affected by this minimum wage.... then they won't have a noticeable impact on the general statistical numbers. Again, everything you are saying, we already said.
The part you disagree with, is that the few people that are affected by the minimum wage, the effects are negative.
They increase prices on consumers, and reduce working hours.
You claim that I'm citing sources that cheery pick data to paint it in the worst light.
Do you even know who the source of that information is?
Why raising the minimum wage in Seattle did little to help workers, according to a new study
Yet the actual benefits to workers might have been minimal, according to a group of economists whom the city commissioned to study the minimum wage and who presented their initial findings last week.
Accounting for these factors, the average increase in total earnings due to the minimum wage was small, the researchers concluded. Using their preferred method, they calculated that workers' earnings increased by $5.54 a week on average because of the minimum wage. Using other methods, the researchers found that the minimum wage hike actually caused total weekly earnings to drop -- by as much as $5.22 a week.
So let me help you out there...
The information I've been posting, is from the very city government of Seattle, which paid economists to research the effects of the minimum wage.
So you are telling me, that the politicians of the city, are cherry picking data, to make themselves look bad?
Are are you just wrong, and full of crap?
Uuuuuuhhhhh.....money?
Uh.....dear,you dont make more money when you work fewer hours.
He's trying to say, that now they can work 36 hours, and make the same amount of money as they did working 40 hours, at the lower wage.
Which... is partially true... If they cut back the number of hours you work, to exactly the same amount of money you were earning before.
The problem with his statement is this..... the whole point of raising the minimum wage, wasn't to save 3 hours a week. The whole point was supposed to be, so that people could earn more money.
If they are cutting back your hours, you are not earning more money. The problem then is, even if you are earning the exact same amount of money, you are actually still falling behind, because as we have already posted numerous examples proving.... the minimum wage jacks up the cost of living. Prices go up.
So you are earning the same amount, but the prices of everything you buy, goes up. You are worse off, than before the minimum wage went up.
Of course, that all assumes that you work exactly how many hours you need, to make the same amount of money. In reality, you have little control over that. They could cut your hours to 35 a week, and then you are earning far less than you were before the minimum wage went up.