PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on June 29, 2017, 06:47:17 AM
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http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/seattle-is-getting-an-object-lesson-in-weaponized-data/
Two weeks. Two studies on minimum wage. Two very different results.
Last week, a report out of the University of California—Berkeley found “Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance has raised wages for low-paid workers, without negatively affecting employment,” in the words of the Mayor’s Office. That report, produced by the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at Berkeley, was picked up far and wide as proof that the doomsday scenarios predicted by skeptics of the plan were failing to materialize.
And while another study that came out Monday from researchers at the University of Washington doesn’t exactly spell doomsday either, it wasn’t exactly rosy. “UW study finds Seattle’s minimum wage is costing jobs,” read the Seattle Times headline Monday morning. The study found that while wages for low-earners rose by 3 percent since the law went into effect, hours for those workers dropped by 9 percent. The average worker making less than $19 an hour in Seattle has seen a total loss of $125 a month since the law went into effect.
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It isn't the figures that lie, it's the liars that figure.
In our case, also the liars that are in office.
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Seattle, like San Francisco is a lost cause. They also passed a "gun tax" so now all the gun shops are closing, or moving outside the city limits. It is de facto more gun control. These moonbeams will NEVER learn because they have brainwashed the populace into their utopian vision.