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Originally Posted by mostpost
.........Reich and economists at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute also criticized the report as not properly accounting for Seattle’s economic boom, which they say is causing the shift from lower-paid to higher-paid jobs. In other words, less people are working less hours at low paying jobs because many of them have graduated to higher paying jobs....
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Don't most people start at low paying jobs and graduate to higher paying jobs? Once they graduate do the jobs simply vanish into thin air? An economic boom creates not only high paying jobs but also a greater need to provide goods and services which in many cases requires low paying jobs.