NATIONAL JOURNAL — The announcement sounded like the premise of a feel-good summer movie. High schoolers in Seattle set to start working in ice cream shops and summer camps are given a raise by their City Council. Employees and employers alike will enjoy the summer of their lives, since all those youngsters will have more money in their pockets to spend at local businesses, as well as make memories on warm, starry nights.
That may be a good trailer, but it hardly captures the reality of how Seattle’s new minimum-wage law will play out for real-life teens and the others seeking work in that city’s lower-paying industries.
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