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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 |
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