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Campaign seeks to push Seattle minimum wage to $15
KOMO-TV Online, August 19, 2015

“…Economist Chris Benner of the University of California at Davis does not agree that a higher minimum wage would lead to job losses.

“There may be some job impact in those small businesses themselves,” he said. But in the entire economy, when you increase income to low-wage workers, it creates jobs because those workers are likely to spend their additional income and that increases demand for goods and services….”