Clearly, Raising the Minimum Wage in Seattle was anAbject Failure

Two years after $15.00 an hour became the law in Seattle the city has experienced some of the strongest employment growth in the nation:

In light of a recent monthly release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), time for a quick trip to the glorious pacific northwest and the Seattle, WA area to revisit what’s been happening there in the wake of that city’s rising minimum wage.

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Well, in the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett Metropolitan Division (MD), comprised of King and Snohomish Counties, BLS just reported (on November 30) this:

Now, as good as that news is (and it’s pretty impressive), it does represent a two county area and not just the city of Seattle proper. Some may recall that in many of his pieces on Seattle, [American Enterprise Institute Puke] Mark Perry very inappropriately used the even larger three-county Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), and I called him out on that.

Well, as luck would have it, we can actually drill down to the city of Seattle proper and take a look at its unemployment rate (among other things). So, how’s Seattle faring?

What's more, restaurant and hospitality employment is way up, exactly the opposite of what the right wingers predicted.

Once again, the conservatives are certain, determined, and wrong.