Backgrounder: Minimum and Living Wage
Date of Backgrounder
April 2014
Note: This is not a League study.
Name of Submitting League
Title of Backgrounder
An Overview of Minimum and Living Wage Laws
Summary
The national spotlight is on King County as two cities, Sea-Tac and Seattle, are moving to raise the living and minimum wages, respectively. The LWV Seattle-King County Economics and Taxation Committee prepared this backgrounder to help members increase their understanding of the minimum and living wage issue.
The backgrounder includes the history of the minimum wage in the US, the context of the US economy, the difference between minimum and living wage, an overview of federal and state minimum wage laws, and an overview of local living wage and minimum wage laws,
League or Contact Email Address
League or Contact Phone Number
206-329-4848
Linked documents: URL(s) of study
http://www.seattlelwv.org/files/voterapr14.pdf
Introduction -- page 1
Backgrounder -- page 17
Discussion Questions -- page 16
IntrotoMinimumLivingWage.pdf.docx