Seattle Minimum Wage Hike Already Hurting Businesses
2nd June 2014
Read it.
My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
SeaTac, a suburb of Seattle, recently decided to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and United Liberty tells us that employers in SeaTac have had to cut employee benefits to stay in business after the dramatic raise. In an interview with a publisher from Northwestern Asian Weekly, one employee describes how her company had to cut her benefits to counter the skyrocketing cost of wages: “I lost my 401k, health insurance, paid holiday, and vacation,” she responded. “No more free food,” she added. The wage hike is already hurting Seattle businesses, even though it has not been implemented yet.
June 3rd, 2014 at 08:44
One wonders if there is some sort of genetic problem that prevents certain people from understanding basic math.
June 4th, 2014 at 04:10
I think it’s called ‘stupid’.