NY Post : The $15 Hour Wage KILLING Seattle Jobs

If you luddites think there will be job losses, you should blame Texas for blazing the trail to the successful generation of wind power.

Why do you think coal miners are to stupid to change occupations that will pay them more money and live longer, healthier lives? The point is, by reducing the amount of coal we use the planet gets healthier annnd the quality of life gets better for miners annnd miners earn more money, win-win-win.


10 Best-Paid Skilled Labor Jobs

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Are you interested in earning high pay while working with your hands? Here's a list of the top 10 most highly-paid jobs that have the most potential for growth, according to PayScale.


1. Wind Turbine Technician

Average Salary: $67,500 per year

Wind turbine service technicians, also called wind techs, are responsible for repairing and maintaining the complicated machinery inside wind turbines. Their work can be as simple as changing light bulbs or as complex as repairing a circuit board. The field is so new there isn't an official certification track yet, however according to the American Wind Energy Association, the amount of energy provided by wind turbines grew by 39 percent each year between 2004 to 2009. Get ready to be blown away by your pay. With five to eight years of experience some techs can earn over $84,000 per year.

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You ask why coal miners are stupid not to change jobs. Well, there are no other jobs available right now. Meanwhile, they will go bankrupt and lose their homes. More government dependents in the making. Either they wind up on the doles or you'll have more desperate people who can only find starter jobs and they'll start supporting raising the minimum again.

Why don't you ask why fast food workers are too stupid to change to better jobs instead of raising the minimum? You guys know it's destroying the available jobs, but you want more of it.

The liberal policies are taking away the good jobs, leaving those jobs meant for teens. Then you use that as an excuse to raise the minimum. When it makes even more jobs disappear, you get what you wanted all along. People running to nanny government.


You make me laugh... The implication of your post is the transition from killer coal to clean energy will happen overnight - is that what you intended to imply?

BTW, I didn't ask if coal miners "are stupid not to change jobs", I asked why luddites think there will be job losses while transitioning from coal to clean energy - do you know who luddites are?

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If you luddites think there will be job losses, you should blame Texas for blazing the trail to the successful generation of wind power.

Why do you think coal miners are to stupid to change occupations that will pay them more money and live longer, healthier lives? The point is, by reducing the amount of coal we use the planet gets healthier annnd the quality of life gets better for miners annnd miners earn more money, win-win-win.


10 Best-Paid Skilled Labor Jobs

<snip>

Are you interested in earning high pay while working with your hands? Here's a list of the top 10 most highly-paid jobs that have the most potential for growth, according to PayScale.


1. Wind Turbine Technician

Average Salary: $67,500 per year

Wind turbine service technicians, also called wind techs, are responsible for repairing and maintaining the complicated machinery inside wind turbines. Their work can be as simple as changing light bulbs or as complex as repairing a circuit board. The field is so new there isn't an official certification track yet, however according to the American Wind Energy Association, the amount of energy provided by wind turbines grew by 39 percent each year between 2004 to 2009. Get ready to be blown away by your pay. With five to eight years of experience some techs can earn over $84,000 per year.

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You ask why coal miners are stupid not to change jobs. Well, there are no other jobs available right now. Meanwhile, they will go bankrupt and lose their homes. More government dependents in the making. Either they wind up on the doles or you'll have more desperate people who can only find starter jobs and they'll start supporting raising the minimum again.

Why don't you ask why fast food workers are too stupid to change to better jobs instead of raising the minimum? You guys know it's destroying the available jobs, but you want more of it.

The liberal policies are taking away the good jobs, leaving those jobs meant for teens. Then you use that as an excuse to raise the minimum. When it makes even more jobs disappear, you get what you wanted all along. People running to nanny government.
 
If you luddites think there will be job losses, you should blame Texas for blazing the trail to the successful generation of wind power.

Why do you think coal miners are to stupid to change occupations that will pay them more money and live longer, healthier lives? The point is, by reducing the amount of coal we use the planet gets healthier annnd the quality of life gets better for miners annnd miners earn more money, win-win-win.


10 Best-Paid Skilled Labor Jobs

<snip>

Are you interested in earning high pay while working with your hands? Here's a list of the top 10 most highly-paid jobs that have the most potential for growth, according to PayScale.


1. Wind Turbine Technician

Average Salary: $67,500 per year

Wind turbine service technicians, also called wind techs, are responsible for repairing and maintaining the complicated machinery inside wind turbines. Their work can be as simple as changing light bulbs or as complex as repairing a circuit board. The field is so new there isn't an official certification track yet, however according to the American Wind Energy Association, the amount of energy provided by wind turbines grew by 39 percent each year between 2004 to 2009. Get ready to be blown away by your pay. With five to eight years of experience some techs can earn over $84,000 per year.

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Only one of those ten jobs your article lists have anything to do with the environment. A career or trade is only as good as the job availability. Now go to your local paper and see how many openings there are for a Wind Turbine Technician.

So what?

The empirical evidence doesn't support the Republican's/conservative's screwball ideology.

Below is an article C&Ped from the conservative's fiscal bible - Seattle is ranked #7 best city in the United States for finding a job in 2016...


The 10 Best Cities For Finding Employment Right Now

The human resources firm Adecco Staffing looked at the U.S. cities with the fullest employment, according to the Department of Labor, as well as internal data around job growth and demand, and then determined which areas are the best for finding a job. Here are the top 10 cities for jobs right now.

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Sure, and that is great, but like I said earlier, these things take time before you can conclude what the eventual impact will be. I don't see industry dying to get into an area where labor is more expensive than an area where labor is not.


You're right about one thing, companies are not "dying to get into" Seattle, but if your business wants to healthy existence, a highly educated, a highly skilled, a highly productive staff - they'll want to come to Seattle and-----and... they are.

The problem with Republican/conservative ideology is, it doesn't allow for flexibility of thought, Seattle's doing great. I understand why the Republican/conservative ideology forces you to use projection as the only/best defense for claiming Seattle's economy is bleeding jobs - it's all ya got. But in the real world, in today's world... Seattle's doing great-----doing great compared to most of the rest of the country. I know Republicans/conservatives hate to hear it but-----but facts is facts, whether we like them or not, right?


Seattle is...

Named by Kiplinger's as one of the "10 Best Cities for the Next Decade," Seattle and the Puget Sound region are a great place to live, visit and do business. It's home to some of the most recognizable global companies and a diverse population of more than 3.7 million people. Whether you're looking for economic opportunity, cultural events or educational excellence, you'll find it—and much more—in Seattle.

The Seattle metro area has it all: globally recognized companies, growing small and minority-owned businesses, highly skilled workers, cutting-edge research and thriving industry clusters. Learn more about how to grow your business here on our Business Tools page.

5 things you may not know about businesses in the Seattle metro area:

1. Seattle is home to many globally-recognized organizations that are headquartered in our region, including: Amazon.com, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Microsoft Corporation, Starbucks Coffee Company, Costco, Weyerhaeuser, Nordstrom, REI, Alaska Airlines, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

2. Small and minority-owned businesses are a vital and thriving contributor to the Seattle metro economy and the community at large. The Business Index 2010, produced by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, ranks the state's tax system fifth in the nation for entrepreneurship and small business. According to the 2010 Washington Minority Small Business Survey, conducted by the University of Washington's Business and Economic Development Center, 36 percent of minority-owned businesses anticipated hiring within the next three months.

3. Seattle consistently ranks as one of the most highly educated cities in the nation with 56 percent of residents having at least a bachelor's degree. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Google are some of the Bay Area tech companies that have opened offices in the Seattle area to tap into the region's deep talent pool.

4. Seattle is home to world-renowned public and private research institutions. Including the University of Washington, one of the top public universities for research funding. Private institutions and companies also have extensive research functions. According to a study by the Technology Alliance, Washington state has especially strong R&D spending by business and nonprofits.

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Lmao you still want to ignore my post?


Defense and Military Job Market in Seattle, Washington - ClearanceJobs



In addition to defense industry and defense contracting opportunities,
Seattle has a large and growing active-duty military population. Washington state ranks seventh in the nation in military population, and saw an increase in military and civilian jobs as a result of Base Realignment and Closure(BRAC). The area also has a high population of veterans.

“We are one of the top places for retirement for the military,” said Olivia Robinson, regional affairs coordinator for the Puget Sound Regional Council. “So we’re trying to make sure companies know we have fantastic people who have training, security clearances, and the experience for high-level positions.”

The military presence in the Puget Sound region includes Fort Lewis-McChord, a joint Army/Air Force base merged by the 2005 BRAC commission and the third largest military installation in the nation. Naval Base Kitsap and Naval Station Everett, as well as National Guard and Coast Guard facilities are also based in the region. The military facilities directly support more than 93,000 jobs in the region and provide an estimated $3.1 billion in total payroll annually. In 2006, defense contracting in the Puget Sound region totaled $3.7 billion. In 2009, the defense industry provided $10.5 billion in labor income alone.

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Are you saying ultra-liberal Seattle is a bastion of active military and military veterans? Thanks for the info, good on us!
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They know damn well it will kill jobs. It means more people running to government for assistance. That is what they want to accomplish and are doing it under the guise of helping the little people. They are merely helping people onto the liberal plantation and away from self reliance. They've killed middle class jobs and now are trying to destroy the minimum wage jobs.

Fewer people will get to keep their $15 an hour minimum wage jobs and Bernie is hoping he can someday take another few thousand a year from those poor Americans. Their taxes will increase, too. That's how much the left cares.

Meanwhile, Hillary announced she will force coal companies out of business. Yay! More poor people in the future, thanks to liberal policies. And it's impossible to get the idiots out there to understand that they are supporting things that will hurt them.


If you luddites think there will be job losses, you should blame Texas for blazing the trail to the successful generation of wind power.

Why do you think coal miners are to stupid to change occupations that will pay them more money and live longer, healthier lives? The point is, by reducing the amount of coal we use the planet gets healthier annnd the quality of life gets better for miners annnd miners earn more money, win-win-win.


10 Best-Paid Skilled Labor Jobs

<snip>

Are you interested in earning high pay while working with your hands? Here's a list of the top 10 most highly-paid jobs that have the most potential for growth, according to PayScale.


1. Wind Turbine Technician

Average Salary: $67,500 per year

Wind turbine service technicians, also called wind techs, are responsible for repairing and maintaining the complicated machinery inside wind turbines. Their work can be as simple as changing light bulbs or as complex as repairing a circuit board. The field is so new there isn't an official certification track yet, however according to the American Wind Energy Association, the amount of energy provided by wind turbines grew by 39 percent each year between 2004 to 2009. Get ready to be blown away by your pay. With five to eight years of experience some techs can earn over $84,000 per year.

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Only one of those ten jobs your article lists have anything to do with the environment. A career or trade is only as good as the job availability. Now go to your local paper and see how many openings there are for a Wind Turbine Technician.

So what?

The empirical evidence doesn't support the Republican's/conservative's screwball ideology.

Below is an article C&Ped from the conservative's fiscal bible - Seattle is ranked #7 best city in the United States for finding a job in 2016...


The 10 Best Cities For Finding Employment Right Now

The human resources firm Adecco Staffing looked at the U.S. cities with the fullest employment, according to the Department of Labor, as well as internal data around job growth and demand, and then determined which areas are the best for finding a job. Here are the top 10 cities for jobs right now.
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Sure, and that is great, but like I said earlier, these things take time before you can conclude what the eventual impact will be. I don't see industry dying to get into an area where labor is more expensive than an area where labor is not.


You're right about one thing, companies are not "dying to get into" Seattle, but if your business wants to healthy existence, a highly educated, a highly skilled, a highly productive staff - they'll want to come to Seattle and-----and... they are.

The problem with Republican/conservative ideology is, it doesn't allow for flexibility of thought, Seattle's doing great. I understand why the Republican/conservative ideology forces you to use projection as the only/best defense for claiming Seattle's economy is bleeding jobs - it's all ya got. But in the real world, in today's world... Seattle's doing great-----doing great compared to most of the rest of the country. I know Republicans/conservatives hate to hear it but-----but facts is facts, whether we like them or not, right?


Seattle is...

Named by Kiplinger's as one of the "10 Best Cities for the Next Decade," Seattle and the Puget Sound region are a great place to live, visit and do business. It's home to some of the most recognizable global companies and a diverse population of more than 3.7 million people. Whether you're looking for economic opportunity, cultural events or educational excellence, you'll find it—and much more—in Seattle.

The Seattle metro area has it all: globally recognized companies, growing small and minority-owned businesses, highly skilled workers, cutting-edge research and thriving industry clusters. Learn more about how to grow your business here on our Business Tools page.

5 things you may not know about businesses in the Seattle metro area:

1. Seattle is home to many globally-recognized organizations that are headquartered in our region, including: Amazon.com, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Microsoft Corporation, Starbucks Coffee Company, Costco, Weyerhaeuser, Nordstrom, REI, Alaska Airlines, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

2. Small and minority-owned businesses are a vital and thriving contributor to the Seattle metro economy and the community at large. The Business Index 2010, produced by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, ranks the state's tax system fifth in the nation for entrepreneurship and small business. According to the 2010 Washington Minority Small Business Survey, conducted by the University of Washington's Business and Economic Development Center, 36 percent of minority-owned businesses anticipated hiring within the next three months.

3. Seattle consistently ranks as one of the most highly educated cities in the nation with 56 percent of residents having at least a bachelor's degree. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Google are some of the Bay Area tech companies that have opened offices in the Seattle area to tap into the region's deep talent pool.

4. Seattle is home to world-renowned public and private research institutions. Including the University of Washington, one of the top public universities for research funding. Private institutions and companies also have extensive research functions. According to a study by the Technology Alliance, Washington state has especially strong R&D spending by business and nonprofits.

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$15 Minimum Wage Campaigners Frustrated, Now Demanding Fewer Hours. Guess Why?
 
If you luddites think there will be job losses, you should blame Texas for blazing the trail to the successful generation of wind power.

Why do you think coal miners are to stupid to change occupations that will pay them more money and live longer, healthier lives? The point is, by reducing the amount of coal we use the planet gets healthier annnd the quality of life gets better for miners annnd miners earn more money, win-win-win.


10 Best-Paid Skilled Labor Jobs

<snip>

Are you interested in earning high pay while working with your hands? Here's a list of the top 10 most highly-paid jobs that have the most potential for growth, according to PayScale.


1. Wind Turbine Technician

Average Salary: $67,500 per year

Wind turbine service technicians, also called wind techs, are responsible for repairing and maintaining the complicated machinery inside wind turbines. Their work can be as simple as changing light bulbs or as complex as repairing a circuit board. The field is so new there isn't an official certification track yet, however according to the American Wind Energy Association, the amount of energy provided by wind turbines grew by 39 percent each year between 2004 to 2009. Get ready to be blown away by your pay. With five to eight years of experience some techs can earn over $84,000 per year.

<snip>
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Only one of those ten jobs your article lists have anything to do with the environment. A career or trade is only as good as the job availability. Now go to your local paper and see how many openings there are for a Wind Turbine Technician.

So what?

The empirical evidence doesn't support the Republican's/conservative's screwball ideology.

Below is an article C&Ped from the conservative's fiscal bible - Seattle is ranked #7 best city in the United States for finding a job in 2016...


The 10 Best Cities For Finding Employment Right Now

The human resources firm Adecco Staffing looked at the U.S. cities with the fullest employment, according to the Department of Labor, as well as internal data around job growth and demand, and then determined which areas are the best for finding a job. Here are the top 10 cities for jobs right now.
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Sure, and that is great, but like I said earlier, these things take time before you can conclude what the eventual impact will be. I don't see industry dying to get into an area where labor is more expensive than an area where labor is not.


You're right about one thing, companies are not "dying to get into" Seattle, but if your business wants to healthy existence, a highly educated, a highly skilled, a highly productive staff - they'll want to come to Seattle and-----and... they are.

The problem with Republican/conservative ideology is, it doesn't allow for flexibility of thought, Seattle's doing great. I understand why the Republican/conservative ideology forces you to use projection as the only/best defense for claiming Seattle's economy is bleeding jobs - it's all ya got. But in the real world, in today's world... Seattle's doing great-----doing great compared to most of the rest of the country. I know Republicans/conservatives hate to hear it but-----but facts is facts, whether we like them or not, right?


Seattle is...

Named by Kiplinger's as one of the "10 Best Cities for the Next Decade," Seattle and the Puget Sound region are a great place to live, visit and do business. It's home to some of the most recognizable global companies and a diverse population of more than 3.7 million people. Whether you're looking for economic opportunity, cultural events or educational excellence, you'll find it—and much more—in Seattle.

The Seattle metro area has it all: globally recognized companies, growing small and minority-owned businesses, highly skilled workers, cutting-edge research and thriving industry clusters. Learn more about how to grow your business here on our Business Tools page.

5 things you may not know about businesses in the Seattle metro area:

1. Seattle is home to many globally-recognized organizations that are headquartered in our region, including: Amazon.com, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Microsoft Corporation, Starbucks Coffee Company, Costco, Weyerhaeuser, Nordstrom, REI, Alaska Airlines, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

2. Small and minority-owned businesses are a vital and thriving contributor to the Seattle metro economy and the community at large. The Business Index 2010, produced by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, ranks the state's tax system fifth in the nation for entrepreneurship and small business. According to the 2010 Washington Minority Small Business Survey, conducted by the University of Washington's Business and Economic Development Center, 36 percent of minority-owned businesses anticipated hiring within the next three months.

3. Seattle consistently ranks as one of the most highly educated cities in the nation with 56 percent of residents having at least a bachelor's degree. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Google are some of the Bay Area tech companies that have opened offices in the Seattle area to tap into the region's deep talent pool.

4. Seattle is home to world-renowned public and private research institutions. Including the University of Washington, one of the top public universities for research funding. Private institutions and companies also have extensive research functions. According to a study by the Technology Alliance, Washington state has especially strong R&D spending by business and nonprofits.

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$15 Minimum Wage Campaigners Frustrated, Now Demanding Fewer Hours. Guess Why?

Was it your misogyny or your hate for fetuses over the age of 9 months and one day or thereabouts that forced you to post an article from a lying rightwing website?

If you would have bothered to fact check the story, you would have discovered only 5 women [possibly] and their children were asking a single employer to cut back their hours so they can qualify for a
Seattle Housing Voucher - NOT welfare - as your lying website says.

BTW, if you're wondering, the average cost to rent for a two bedroom apartment in Seattle is over $2,100./mo.


Reports claim minimum wage workers in Seattle are asking for their hours to be cut so they can retain "welfare" benefits
Kim LaCapria
Jul 28, 2015

Claim: Minimum wage workers in Seattle are asking for their hours to be cut so they can retain welfare benefits.

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WHAT'S TRUE: Five full-time Seattle caregivers may have asked to adjust their hours in order to remain in subsidized housing.

WHAT'S UNPROVEN: More than five to seven workers have deliberately reduced their working hours to retain subsidized housing, workers are spending fewer hours on the job to retain benefits other than subsidized housing, the Seattle minimum wage law has caused an reduction in overall hours worked by low-wage workers.

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What has been reported is that several full-time workers at a single Seattle non-profit may have expressed a desire to adjust their hours to retain subsidized housing, but more "evidence" of workers requesting fewer hours on the job after the minimum wage increase hasn't turned up yet. Moreover, the source originally quoted about the issue stated that workers earning the higher hourly rate would likely be unable to afford private housing in Seattle due to market conditions, but they were not seeking other "welfare" benefits nor unwilling to work.

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that was their commie governments intentions to begin with. How else do they get them on the taxpayer/entitlements gravy train so they can make them all their subjects. they are almost there already, they never protest anything their Masters does to them.
 

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