Emails show Seattle mayor worked to undermine $15 minimum wage study

Emails between the Seattle mayor’s office and an economist at the University of California, Berkeley show that the mayor’s staff tried to deliberately undermine a University of Washington study showing that the city’s $15 minimum wage ordinance was harming the city’s low-income workers.

The emails show the staff went to great lengths to publicize the Berkeley economist’s report and downplay the other report’s findings.