{"id":24056,"date":"2019-07-28T22:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24056"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:10:01","slug":"seattles-minimum-wage-has-been-a-disaster-as-the-citys-own-study-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24056","title":{"rendered":"Seattle&#8217;s Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City&#8217;s Own Study Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle_Skyline-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle's Skyline\" class=\"wp-image-24057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle_Skyline-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle_Skyline-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle_Skyline-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle_Skyline.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seattle provides a practical example of minimum wages leading to losses in income and employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tom&#8217;s view: There are some jobs that are just not worth paying someone to do above a certain hourly rate. If you raise the minimum pay rate to over that amount, the jobs don&#8217;t get done and the person who would do them at the lower rate goes unemployed. That&#8217;s just common sense. Now, how you factor that against the requirement to earn sufficient to keep body and soul together in a modern metropolis and the propensity for greedy, unethical employers to take advantage of a no minimum wage scenario is an interesting question!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/seattles-minimum-wage-has-been-a-disaster-as-the-citys-own-study-confirms\/\">https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/seattles-minimum-wage-has-been-a-disaster-as-the-citys-own-study-confirms\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle provides a practical example of minimum wages leading to losses in income and employment. (Tom&#8217;s view: There are some jobs that are just not worth paying someone to do above a certain hourly rate. If you raise the minimum pay rate to over that amount, the jobs don&#8217;t get done and the person who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seattle&#8217;s Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City&#8217;s Own Study Confirms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24058,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24056\/revisions\/24058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}