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The UW report excludes multi-site businesses from its dataset, which removes 48 percent of Seattle’s low-paid workforce out of their study. This major exclusion raises a big red caution flag about the representativeness of their sample and therefore about the interpretation of their findings.

The Berkeley study looked only at one industry. Not sure they're in any place to be criticizing "major exclusions."

I'm not qualified to review either paper, but it's worth noting the UW paper was commissioned by the city government to gauge the effect of their own law.

The Berkeley study was written by someone who founded an advocacy group to "support an American version of socialism, with public ownership of production and a government-planned economy to meet social needs rather than the needs of private profit."

557833on What is Congress browsing?

That video fails to mention that those numbers only apply to the very small (6% iirc) minority of issues where there's a statistically significant difference of opinion between "the people" and the rich.

Also, the paper doesn't ascribe any reason for the effect. All that stuff about campaign finance is just editorializing from that video. It's just as possible that, for example, wealth and education are well correlated and Congress is siding with the well-educated 6% of the time.

557833on Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior

Lake Superior has enough water to flood all of North and South America to almost one foot.

557833on New CIA director thinks Snowden should be killed

And, just to be clear, the apology he's talking about is from Russia to the US government.