Erin Shannon, director of the Center for Small Business at the Washington Policy Center, has been poring over the University of Washington’s study of Seattle’s $15 minimum wage, and reports on her blog:
“On the heels of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s launch of the Mayor’s Youth Employment Initiative to encourage businesses to hire young workers in the city, comes a warning of tough times ahead for that demographic.
“University of Washington Professor Jacob Vigdor is the head of the study commissioned by the city of Seattle to gauge the impacts of the city’s $15 minimum wage law. According to Vigdor, young workers in Seattle looking for their first job are going to be in ‘a tough position.’
Shannon analyses the UW study in three parts, the first of which can be read here. Part 2 will be in the June 2 e-newsletter, and Part 3 in the June 16 e-newsletter.
NFIB has included Shannon’s three-part analysis along with other stories on Washington state’s minimum-wage battles in this special page, Washington Minimum Wage Watch.