The reporting on Seattle's minimum wage hike aligns suspiciously well with news outlets' ideological biases, almost to the point that the articles could have be

The reporting on Seattle's minimum wage hike aligns suspiciously well with news outlets' ideological biases, almost to the point that the articles could have been written before the wage hike even happened. Which suggests that maybe the data are inconclusive or muddled and so everyone is finding what they expected to find. It's a complicated situation, with many factors that aren't touched on in this article: 1. Seattle had relatively few minimum wage workers to begin with. The raise doesn't directly affect most of Seattle's workforce. 2. Seattle's booming economic numbers probably overlook the fact that the working poor and chronically unemployed can't afford to live within city limits. It's expensive here. 3. The tech boom continues to flood the market with high-paid jobs, and prices for everything are steadily raising across the board. This could be masking effects, positive or negative, of the minimum wage hike. 4. Meanwhile, there is a massive increase in homelessness and homeless tent encampments. A lot of people are being left behind by the boom.