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By many accounts, the 2012 Super Bowl was a close game – but there’s still another big (political) football kicking around: the minimum wage. The players workers actually on the field job say it’s a clear winner – and so do the referees researchers who are closely watching the effect of this important rule. But […]
Despite sound economic research showing that good base wages have positive effects on businesses, workers and the economy, attacks on Washington’s minimum wage surface year after year – 2012 was no exception. On January 31, the House Labor and Workforce Development Committee heard testimony on several bills that would cut the paychecks of Washington’s lowest-wage […]
In yesterday’s “Labor and Workforce Development Committee“ Washington’s best-in-the-nation minimum wage was under attack yet again. The latest offensive came in the form of three bills, introduced by Rep. Cary Condotta, which would: reduce the minimum wage for tipped workers, lower automatic cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) that track inflation, and suspend the minimum wage COLA when unemployment is above 7.5%. Rep. […]
