Or as the AP report has it:
A University of Washington team studying the law’s effects found that the law has boosted pay in low-wage jobs since it took effect in 2015, but that it also caused a 9 percent reduction in hours worked, The Seattle Times reported . For an average low-wage Seattle worker, that’s a loss of about $125 per month, the study said.
The full paper is here.
OK, so what's worse about it? Well, take this from the Washington Post:
That doesn’t mean that nobody in Seattle will ever lose a job, of course, or that the University of Washington team’s research doesn’t merit further exploration. But it does mean that the Seattle minimum wage increase, like every minimum wage increase in American history, has lifted the wages of low-wage workers and been perfectly fine for the economy.
So, a paper comes out stating that the minimum wage rise has been a bad idea yet here's the claim that everything's just dandy. What gives? Well, he's talking about another paper:
