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Originally Posted by Kich867
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-- Side note: Which city is this, Seattle? Weren't they one of the early cities to adopt raising the minimum wage after they realized that by raising the minimum wage that it indirectly benefited big business in that more people had more expendable income to purchase more / better goods, creating significantly more consumers than they previously had?
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We're just outside Seattle but yea, similar pay/economies/COL/etc. Seattle proper is $15/hour. My town only has to follow the state MW but the lowest anybody can get away with is $14/hour and that's for after school high-school kids. If I walked into Walmart they'd start me at $18/hour part time, $21/hour full time.
Be careful about selling the "pay higher wages for more disposable income" thing. If you look at it in a certain light it's true. The working poor around here though isn't buying higher quality goods but rather more cheap crap. Additionally since wages have gone up so has the overall cost of living. We recently had a sound transit initiative go through. It's due to start operations in a little over a year and be completed in 2040. Because of that our car tabs have skyrocketed and property taxes left the solar system a couple years ago. These things of course have hit everybody but the working poor the hardest.