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Originally Posted by rubecube
The unfortunate thing is, if you google "Seattle minimum wage," you get the right-wing propaganda pieces. You actually have to do a bit of digging for the Times article. In conclusion, fact check your sources, people!
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I mentioned my anecdotal experience with Seattle from trips over the last decade in another thread. Certainly no expert but it was pretty freaky to see so many boarded up and closed restaurants, stores and buildings in the downtown core. Even near their main convention center you'd walk past what looked like abandoned sets from the Walking Dead (buildings obviously abandoned with vegetation wildly growing).
Been to Westlake Center many times but it's obviously dying even with its location and tourist friendly monorail connection. McDonald's had to close up shop and even the cool Japanese dollar store downsized staff and moved to half their original floor space.
Other people claim that they've been well on this route before they started increasing wages to $15 but that's what I saw.