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Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds (usatoday.com)
As companies look for ways to cut costs, Seattle's $15 minimum wage law may be hurting hourly workers instead of helping them, according to a new report. From a USA Today article: A report (PDF) from the University of Washington (UW), found that when wages increased to $13 in 2016, some companies may have responded by cutting low-wage workers' hours. The study, which was funded in part by the city of Seattle, found that workers clocked 9 percent fewer hours on average, and earned $125 less each month after the most recent increase. "If you're a low-skilled worker with one of those jobs, $125 a month is a sizable amount of money," Mark Long, a UW public-policy professor and an author of the report told the Seattle Times. "It can be the difference between being able to pay your rent and not being able to pay your rent."
they're working less hours. They got a $5/hr raise. No $hi1 they're working less hours. Hours worked != Quality of Life. Who knew?
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Look at the people crying about not being able to live off of minimum wage. How many of them have:
1.) Cell phone for every member of the house
2.) Cable/Satellite TV
3.) Xbox/Playstation
4.) Xbox/Playstation yearly membership plans
5.) Car
6.) Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu accts
7.) etc, etc, etc
All of these are luxury items anywhere else in the world but considered necessities in the US. I worked minimum wage through high school while living in my own apartment. I had none of those things, decided it sucked, worked my ass off and didn't work minimum wage for more than a few months out of high school.