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1/ I'm not sure where @KING5Seattle reporter @jwhittenbergK5 gets his news, but it's obviously not from watching KING 5 news. Because if he did, he'd be well familiar with a bunch of studies on Seattle's $15 minimum—mostly concluding that it has been good. https://twitter.com/jwhittenbergK5/status/1357688684514996233
2/ For example, there's this 2018 @KING5Seattle report "economists from the University of Washington found minimum wage increases were either beneficial or had no significant impact on many workers in Seattle." http://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-minimum-wage-study-finds-some-contrast-to-previous-work-by-same-authors/281-606843807
3/ And there's this 2017 @KING5Seattle report that researchers from UC Berkeley found "Seattle's $15-an-hour minimum wage law has boosted pay for restaurant workers without costing jobs." http://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattles-high-minimum-wage-hasnt-cost-jobs-study-finds/281-450850532
4/ Don't trust TV news? Understandable. But @DBeekman at the @seattletimes is a pretty well respected print journalist, so had Jake spent 30 seconds googling the issue he might have seen this article on a study finding $15 didn’t boost supermarket prices. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattles-minimum-wage-hikes-didnt-boost-supermarket-prices-new-uw-study-says/
5/ Or maybe @jwhittenbergK5 would prefer to go straight source? @JakeVigdor was one of the lead authors on the UW minimum wage study team. He started out thinking min wage was "a lousy anti-poverty program." But studying $15 helped changed his mind. https://twitter.com/JakeVigdor/status/1187121394686947328?s=20
6/ Or, if @jwhittenbergK5 is really interested in what the academic literature says about $15 and other substantial hikes in the minimum wage, he might want to follow @arindube, who's had his fingers in a ton of min wage research over the past few years. https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1357119104419651585?s=20
7/ I mean, it's one thing to dismiss a study's conclusion. But assert that "there's still no clear study or opinion" on $15 is just plain nuts. You literally can't throw a rock at an economic journal these days without hitting a min study or four (almost all positive):
8/ So yeah, there are actually tons of studies on $15 & other big min wage hikes, and the consensus is that they raised incomes & pulled people out of poverty without shuttering businesses or losing jobs and without substantially pushing up prices.
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