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1) Every time a minimum wage increase is proposed locally or nationally, conservative politicians & their billionaire campaign contributors claim that jobs will be destroyed. Time after time they have been proven dead wrong by the facts. (see thread below) wsj.com/articles/labor…
2) When Seattle increased its minimum wage to $15/hour the right wing called it an “economic death wish” that would kill jobs & shutter restaurants. Instead, the exact opposite happened. Since Seattle raised the min wage, jobs in restaurants & bars soared. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… 
3) After Oakland, San Jose, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco & D.C. significantly increased minimum wages, unemployment went down, median income went up & private sector job growth was stronger than in comparable areas that didn’t raise the minimum wage. irle.berkeley.edu/files/2018/09/…
4) A recent study by NBER found essentially no loss in low-wage jobs five years after more than 135 minimum wage increases took effect in states since 1979, while earnings went up. nber.org/papers/w25434.…
5) In '14, SeaTac was the 1st city in the U.S. to raise its minimum wage to $15/hr immediately increasing pay by 63% for low-wage workers. Like clockwork, before this pay raise took effect, business owners warned of massive layoffs. They were proven wrong. washingtonstatewire.com/seatac-city-co…
6) The owner of Cedarbrook Lodge in SeaTac said with tears in his eyes that if the $15/minimum wage initiative passed: “I am going to be forced to lay people off. I’m going to take away their livelihood. That hurts. It really, really hurts.” washingtonstatewire.com/seatac-city-co…
7) After SeaTac raised the minimum wage to $15/hr, that same hotel owner who said he’d cut jobs moved forward with a $16M hotel expansion, added 63 rooms, a spa & hired more workers. Restaurant owners who said they'd close down, added restaurants instead. washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-…
8) Vermont has the 8th highest minimum wage, at $10.78 an hour, and the 5th lowest official unemployment rate in the nation, at 2.7%. Meanwhile, Louisiana, which doesn’t even have a state minimum wage, has the 4th highest unemployment rate in the country at 4.9 percent.
9) The average worker who would benefit from a $15/hr minimum wage is 36 working full-time, not a teenager. Instead of giving a $1 trillion tax breaks to the top 1% and large, profitable corporations, we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. epi.org/publication/wh…
