$15/hour minimum wage, Seattle
How will Seattle's new $15 minimum wage affect the city — for better or worse?
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
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