UW Research
Seattles Minimum Wage Hike Is Boosting Child-Care Costs But Not Food Prices
Findings are from University of Washington research focused on the Impact of the city-mandated pay increase.
Two recent studies conducted by researchers at the University of Washington zeroed in on the impact of the 2014 Seattle minimum wage law, which increases the base wage incrementally through 2021 to $15 per hour. The study found that the rising wage standard is taking a bite out of child-care businesses in the city, causing…
Bright Idea: Rock Stars
UW researchers take a whack at kidney stone disease.
Kidney stones can be extremely painful. Larger stones can get stuck, potentially leading to loss of the kidney, sepsis and even death. So in 700,000 procedures a year, kidney stones are shattered with sound waves or laser beams into smaller pieces that can naturally be flushed from the system. But pieces left behind often grow…