One year after raising minimum wage -- or should I say, one year after all the tools living in trailers in debtor welfare red states saying Seattle would go bust, all is well and retail prices are static.

Behold, rubes. All that bootlicking, and you aren't even right.


[link to www.fastcoexist.com]


More than a year after a new minimum wage took effect in Seattle—$12.50 an hour now for small employers, increasing to $15 an hour by January 2018—prices at most stores haven't gone up.

Before the minimum wage law took effect, most retailers said they would have to charge more. So far, that hasn't happened.
In a new report, researchers from the University of Washington presented data that showed "little or no evidence" of price increases in most sectors. Before the minimum wage law took effect, most retailers said they would have to charge more—and most low-wage workers were worried that they would have to spend more for necessities. So far, that hasn't happened.


(Less than 10%)