Eight scientists and engineers from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.


Eight scientists and engineers from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

The lot of Seattle’s lowest-paid workers improved following the city’s minimum wage increase to $11 in 2015, but that was more due to the robust regional economy than the wage hike itself, according to a research team headed by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Evans School.

Most Seattle employers in a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-led study said in 2015 they expected to raise prices on goods and services to compensate for the city’s new $15 per hour minimum wage law — but a year after implementation such increases are not in evidence.

What will be the effects of the city of Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance? Faculty from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s schools of public affairs, public health and social work are teaming up for The Seattle Minimum Wage Study, a five-year research project to learn that and more.