anarchblr:

soul-hammer:

theweirdwideweb:

Is this about Seattle’s recruitment dropping almost to 0 after the implementation of the living wage? Does anybody have a link?

YES! it is!

“Since the Army is not subject to local minimum wage laws, Seattle pay now outstrips what locals could earn by signing up for the Army. $15 per hour is not only more than the base pay for privates, but corporals and specialists as well.”

-Newsweek

Fuck this article for trying to make me sympathize with the military complex tho. Boo-hoo, Sargent Bootlicker won’t get Friday off for failing to sign up new recruits

a better title of the artical would be “the higher minimum wage is making it more difficult to the us military to prey on the impoverished and desparate”