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Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage

Posted by Unknown on from the only-sort-of-starving-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Seattle City Council announced on Monday that it has unanimously approved a $15 per hour minimum wage mandate. The new rate will go into effect starting April 1, 2015 in a tiered, gradual manner that depends on employer size. In the first year of implementation, hourly minimum wage will be raised to either $10 or $11 according to the employer size category. By 2021, hourly minimum wage across the board should be at or above $15. Seattle is the first city to implement a living wage for its lowest earners."

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  1. Re:Sweden by blahplusplus · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Oh, hang on. Sorry, he was writing about socialism, wasn't he?"

    Orwell, is a democratic socialist. He was criticizing stalin's russia

    "... for the past ten years I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

    AKA he wanted to revive the socialist movement. He stayed a socialist.

  2. Re:Behind the curve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The story was later corrected... the math is off and is incredibly misleading.