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Kavvy · 08-31-2015, 07:00 AM

I love that Seattle has the guts to do this.

There is a great deal of people promoting the idea of a living wage and that we need to increase our minimum wage.

There is an equal number of people against this idea for a number of good reasons.

I have no idea who is right.

However, we now get to see a real experiment in action, from which we can study the effects with no negative effect to us. Hopefully a couple universities study the city and the positive and negative effects this experiment has on it as a whole. We can then use this test city as a foundation for our own provincial decisions in the future.

08-31-2015, 07:00 AM	#166
Kavvy Self Imposed Exile Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Calgary Exp:	I love that Seattle has the guts to do this. There is a great deal of people promoting the idea of a living wage and that we need to increase our minimum wage. There is an equal number of people against this idea for a number of good reasons. I have no idea who is right. However, we now get to see a real experiment in action, from which we can study the effects with no negative effect to us. Hopefully a couple universities study the city and the positive and negative effects this experiment has on it as a whole. We can then use this test city as a foundation for our own provincial decisions in the future.