A conversation with Seattle
Businessweek has a fascinating story about how Ed Murray’s recent proposal to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an … Continue reading The “Seattle Process” is how we got a Seattle $15 minimum wage “without a fight”
“As in every previous discussion of raising the minimum wage, it has been asserted that such a move would increase unemployment, be harmful to the most underprivileged workers, bad for small businesses, and indeed, disastrous for the wider economy. In this same narrative, low-wage jobs are stepping stones, and hard work and higher education are reliable paths to middle-class employment.” Continue reading Op-Ed: The Minimum Wage: Putting Some Myths to Rest, by Kshama Sawant
With the deadline for a declaration of candidacy approaching on May 17, Brian Carver, “a 33-year-old Kindle product director at Amazon.com,” has joined Kshama Sawant in the race to oust Richard Conlin, reports The Stranger’s Cienna Madrid. Conlin, who holds a Master’s in political science, was first elected to the Council in 1997, and has since then worked to legalize miniature goats and ban plastic bags at grocery stores. Continue reading ABC Voters (“Anyone But Conlin”) Can Now Choose Between Carver and Sawant
Laissez-whatevs state law allows a candidate to, you know, go with the flow in terms of the voting public’s captious inclinations, so Sawant, issuing press releases at every juncture, has finally ended up with a debate scheduled against Chopp tonight while Pedersen gets to sit at home with the kids watching Matthew Perry in Go On. (Tonight he plays hockey!) Continue reading Op-Ed: Frank Chopp to Try to Defend State Democrats’ Craven Retreat on Progressive Issues to Actual Progressive