Did you see these two stories in the news this week?

First the business press reported that the SeaTac hotel industry is booming:

And then came word of a near-record-low 2.9% unemployment rate in Seattle as the $15 minimum wage phases in:

So uh yeah at this point I'm thinking it's pretty safe to conclude that the Chicken Little predictions were wrong.

And that must really must put the sky-is-falling crew in a bit of a bind.

They’re probably not going to stop fighting against higher wages just because they've been wrong for more than a hundred years. (It’s basically their job, after all.)

But they must know they're running out of options here. Which raises a question:

Now that it's obvious the Chicken Little scare stories didn't quite pan out, what do you think the trickle-downers are going to throw at us next?

At this point, the doomsday arguments have been consistently wrong for more than 100 years of rising labor standards. So it’ll be…interesting…to see what they come up with next.

Let us know what you think — and what you're hearing,

Maybe they'll yell "spider" and hope that scares people instead?

Now that it's obvious the Chicken Little scare stories didn't quite pan out, what do you think the trickle-downers are going to throw at us next?

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Now that it's obvious the Chicken Little scare stories didn't quite pan out, what do you think the trickle-downers are going to throw at us next?

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Working Washington unites working people to fight for a fair economy where everyone can support themselves, afford the basics, and contribute to the economy.