Category Archives: Berkeley Labor Center
“Fake Research”: Seattle Mayor Knew Critical Min. Wage Study Was Coming, So He Called Berkeley ‘Economists’
Earlier this week we wrote about a study published by the University of Washington which was fairly damning for Seattle’s $15 minimum wage. To our total ‘shock’, the study found that higher minimum wages caused a 9.4% reduction to total hours worked by low-skilled workers, or roughly 14 million hours per year. Given that a […]