Research Team Examines the Impacts of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance on Household-Level Poverty

Research about the relationship between poverty and the minimum wage in Seattle has often focused on examining the economic circumstances of individual workers. One of the projects of the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program at the University of Washington is expanding this lens to create data that views workers as household members, to provide greater context about the role of individual wages in reducing poverty in the region.

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