$15 an hour minimum wage killed Seatle’s job market

UsualName said:
You make a lot of assertions without any sort of evidence to back them up.

Homelessness is an urban issue by and large and has always been part of the urban landscape.

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Many homeless persons come from outside of the city seeking work and help. Also, a disproportionate number of homeless persons are actually veterans and mentally ill people. People who may be susceptible to substance abuse.

This is very much indicative of the Trump groupie mentality. You guys follow the line you see on Fox News without even thinking about where it leads and why.

We are actually making inroads on homelessness too. But if you ask a Fox News watcher they think it’s at record highs.

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My advice is to stop watching Fox News and look at the data. Don’t look for a two sided model either. Find objective data.
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Homelessness is a mental health issue. It's not a an issue of people coming from outside the city seeking work.
 
UsualName said:
About 25% of homeless persons come from outside of the city they are homeless in. And, about the same amount have some degree of mental illness.

https://chapmanpartnership.org/program-services/myths-facts-homeless/
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Nice try ----Laughable. I suspect your "partnership" is desirous of funding and donations. ---It's well known that homelessness is a mental health issue. I imagine that you also get taken in by the people with the cardboard signs at intersections.
 
Buy1Sell2 said:
Nice try ----Laughable. I suspect your "partnership" is desirous of funding and donations. ---It's well known that homelessness is a mental health issue. I imagine that you also get taken in by the people with the cardboard signs at intersections.
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Homelessness can occur because of many issues layered on top of each other. You really should not speak on serious subjects you don’t understand. It makes you look stupid and doesn’t help anyone.
 
UsualName said:
Homelessness can occur because of many issues layered on top of each other. You really should not speak on serious subjects you don’t understand. It makes you look stupid and doesn’t help anyone.
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Homelessness CAN occur from many different issues, but in the end, it's a mental health issue and is a choice.
 
maximumpossiblesuffering said:
Seattle has a disproportionately large homeless population relative to many other large cities because of Leftist policies. Whether Leftists policies create homelessness or the homeless are attracted to Leftist policies, there may be basis for some debate. Taxpayers can be adversely affected when city councils downgrade zoning laws to provide subsidized multifamily housing in established communities of single family homes, potentially causing sub-performing real estate values, increased traffic loads, and worse crime rates. In addition, a physical gerrymandering may be possible depending on district lines and party affiliations. Further, there seems to be coordination between national Democratic leadership and local Democratic leadership as appears to be evidenced by similar zoning moves in Kirkland, WA, Portland, OR, and Austin, TX.

As far as linking the increased minimum wage to homelessness, sure it’s hard to prove specific examples. However, $15.00 per hour times 20 hours per week for those not living at home usually will mean an alternative living arraignment in a high cost of living area such as Seattle, which in some cases will include at least intermittent or temporary homelessness. As a former security guard at a California technology company, I have seen temporary homelessness first hand as there was an employee who used to sleep near company property under a culvert. Incidentally, he later became a manager.

At the core of the homeless situation is whether one political philosophy is better than another, which I tried to address in an other than concise way in my previous post.
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Buy1Sell2 said:
Homelessness CAN occur from many different issues, but in the end, it's a mental health issue and is a choice.
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It may make the libs here feel a little better if we change the wording here to "Chronic Homelessness" and state that that is a mental health issue and is a choice. Libs like to group Temporary Homelessness in with Chronic Homelessness together and call it the same issue.
 
Anyway, the point of the thread is that $15 an hour minimum wage didn’t wreck Seattle as was predicted.

Now I don’t know if a $15 an hour minimum wage is right nationally but something like $11.25 probably is. Raising the minimum wage is good for the American worker and will push up many other wages.
 
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