Seattle and the minimum wage increase

[Benton]

(07-21-2015, 10:34 AM)Beaker Wrote: Exactly. You start out at minimum wage and work your way up. You start a family after you have climbed the ladder a bit...if you are smart.

Agreed. But, there are more workers than jobs and employers can keep wages low in a lot of fields because of the competition.  Which leads to not much ladder climbing. Even in higher paying jobs, phasing out pensions, healthcare costs and just general uncertainty keep people in the workplace longer, meaning those higher jobs to climb to are fewer.