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2017-06-30 Government

Seattle commissions new minimum-wage study after dismissing first results

[FoxNews] When a University of Washington study came out this week showing Seattle's minimum wage has cost 5,000 jobs and is hurting low income workers, city leaders attacked the messenger –- a team of respected economists at Washington's premiere public university.

The researchers, led by Jacob Vigdor, were hired by the city in 2014 to study the effects of Seattle's $15 wage experiment. The contract called for five years of research. City officials stopped funding the UW team when they didn't like the results.

"The moment we saw it was based on flawed methodology and was going to be unreliable, the Vigdor study no longer speaks for City Hall," said Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.
"Keep doing it over and over until we get the results we like!"

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-06-30 00:01|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 They know the science is settled.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-30 03:10|| 2017-06-30 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 No-one should earn a below average wage!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-06-30 08:49|| 2017-06-30 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 "Keep doing it over and over until we get the results we like!"

See Pope-Galileo. The only 'facts' the Left is interested in is Lysenkoism.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-30 08:56|| 2017-06-30 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Not really surprised. The left does not like reality. Tends to mess up their money and power flow.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-06-30 09:05|| 2017-06-30 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Repeated studies are so last millennium. Get yourself a computer model and you can have whatever result you want right from the start, just like the climate change boys.

Posted by SteveS 2017-06-30 10:02|| 2017-06-30 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Some twenty years ago an number of grocery chains in south Texas got together and funded a university study on roadside stands that sell raw shrimp, mostly panel truck on the side of the highway kind of things. The study was going to be the setup for starting a bill to make it illegal to sell that way.
Unfortunately, the study found that roadside stands generally had better quality, fresher, and cheaper product than the stores. Basically right off the boat. Which was what it was.
Ooops.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-06-30 10:25|| 2017-06-30 10:25|| Front Page Top

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