Responding to an Increased Minimum Wage: A Mixed Methods Study of Child Care Businesses during the Implementation of Seattle's Minimum Wage Ordinance

• Main Authors: Jennifer J. Otten (Author), Katherine Getts (Author), Anne Althauser (Author), James Buszkiewicz (Author), Ekaterina Jardim (Author), Heather D. Hill (Author), Jennifer Romich (Author), Scott W. Allard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Social Work & Society, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Low wages are a persistent feature of child care jobs and affect the quality of children's care in the U.S. In this article, we examine how implementation of Seattle's minimum wage law affected the local child care sector using three datasets: (1) state administrative records on approximat...