Point of Clarification: Remember not all low wage Seattle workers flip burgers, steam milk, or bus tables. Many work in health care as well as retailing and other non-food related fields. Some of them do work you think would be high paying, but isn't.

First question: How many jobs were lost because the insane pace of development is forcing the closure of small businesses booted out of rental space, or due to a small business selling its property for a bigger profit than the business would make in a lifetime and then shutting its doors? 

Second question: How many jobs were lost to technology that would have been lost even without a minimum wage hike?

Third question: Reductions in working hours were happening in non-tech jobs even before the minimum wage hike. Cuts in hours are happening out in ‘burbs where the minimum wage is unchanged and the business has no Seattle presence. How many workers would have had hours cut anyway without the hike?

Both studies are open to question.