$15/hour minimum wage, Seattle

Your own city, on its most famous policy fight — here's what the opinion landscape looked like.

In 2014 Seattle became the first major US city to pass a $15/hour minimum wage. This Polis conversation captured public opinion during that policy fight, surfacing the tensions and areas of common ground among residents, workers, and small-business owners.

Source data

• Case study: https://compdemocracy.org/case-studies/2014-seattle-15-per-hour
• Polis report: https://pol.is/2demo
• Open data: https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/tree/master/15-per-hour-seattle

Data was gathered using the Polis software (compdemocracy.org/polis) and is sub-licensed under CC BY 4.0 with Attribution to The Computational Democracy Project. The data and more information about how the data was collected can be found at: https://compdemocracy.org/case-studies/2014-seattle-15-per-hour