The poetry of the Seattle Times editorial board on minimum wage

Sometimes the best poetry is found poetry — such it is with the titles of Seattle Times editorials. Time after time their Editorial Board expresses confidence that bad things will surely happen if wages increase. Then the negative impacts don't arrive, but it's because... it's just a matter of not enough time yet. And then the next time around... the final moment of reckoning still hasn't arrived... it just get further delayed until after the next editorial. 

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Business types get flexible with the truth on secure scheduling

Take a look at what the business lobby has been saying about secure scheduling, and you'll see the ultimate flexibility: flexibility with the truth. That's because there's just no honest way to convince someone that their hours ought to vary wildly from one week to the next, or that flexibility should always work to the benefit of companies, but never in the opposite direction. 

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