As cities across the country pushed their minimum wages to untested heights in recent years, some economists began to ask: How high is too high? Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, may have hit that limit. New research released Monday by a team of economists at the University of Washington suggests Seattle’s wage hike may have come at a significant cost: The increase led to steep declines in employment for low-wage workers, and a drop in hours for those who kept their jobs.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/seattles-minimum-wage-hike-may-have-gone-too-far/
