The case for a $15.00/hr minimum wage Part Deux: Seattle chimes in.

"People Make Up Our City": Why Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Is a Sign of Things to Come

http://truth-out.org/news/item/24608-people-make-up-our-city-why-seattles-$15-minimum-wage-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come

"100,000 Seattle workers will benefit directly from the raise; the city will see a 25 percent reduction in poverty; and the measure will save the government money by reducing the number of people on food stamps and public assistance rolls.

The $15 minimum wage movement's victory has already had effects far beyond Seattle: San Francisco and Chicago are considering similar policies. Other cities are fighting for the right to set their own minimum wages, including New York where the Working Families Party has forced Governor Andrew Cuomo, a corporate Democrat, to promise he will stop obstructing the city's efforts to raise the wage (albeit to a level below $15). The cities that have the most hope of emulating similar movements will be those where labor and community leaders can be pulled out of their separate silos and harnessed together to fight for similar goals.