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Title: Minimum Wage and Job Loss: One Alarming Seattle Study Is Not the Last Word

*Author:* Arindrajit Dube

*Source:* NY Times

*Date:* July 20, 2017 Summary: Seattle was the first city in the United States to raise the minimum wage substantially, so a University of Washington study http://www.nber.org/papers/w23532 released last month showing big job losses has received a lot of attention http://www.epi.org/publication/the-high-road-seattle-labor-market-and-the-effects-of-the-minimum-wage-increase-data-limitations-and-methodological-problems-bias-new-analysis-of-seattles-minimum-wage-incr/, and prompted many an I-told-you-so http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449025/seattle-minimum-wage-hike-hurts-low-wage-workers-study-obvious-economic-result-left . Link: http://nyti.ms/2thWk04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library