A new University of Washington study found the new $15 minimum wage is actually hurting low income workers in the city.
Low income workers in Seattle are bringing home $125 less a month since the ruling.
FOX News reported:
Seattle’s first-in-the-nation $15 per hour minimum wage law is hurting the workers it aimed to help, a new study has found.
The working poor are making more per hour but taking home less pay. The University of Washington paper asserts the new wages boosted worker pay by 3 percent, but also resulted in a 9-percent reduction in hours and a $125 cut to the monthly paychecks.
The law also cost the city 5,000 jobs, the report said.
Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance, passed by the Seattle City Council and signed by Mayor Ed Murray in 2014, was sold as a way to close the income inequality gap and help those struggling at the bottom of the economic ladder. More than a dozen cities and counties, mostly in California and New York, followed suit.
source http://capitalisthq.com/uw-study-low-income-workers-hurt-by-seattles-15-minimum-wage-law/
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