Posted on 09/01/2014 5:30:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
Op-Ed Hiking L.A.'s Minimum Wage Is A No-Brainer Minimum wage Fast food workers protest low pay, demanding a $15/hour minimum wage outside during a two-day nationwide strike. (Los Angeles Times) By ELI BROAD
Raising the minimum wage isn't just good for workers: It's good for business Could you support your family in Los Angeles on the current minimum wage? Raising L.A.'s minimum wage will be a win all around
Of all major cities in the country, Los Angeles has the highest percentage of population living in poverty. After decades of slow job growth and stagnant wages, 28% of Angelenos — 1 million people — today live below the poverty line. Our city's African American and Latino residents face disproportionately higher rates of poverty. The situation is heartbreaking and unconscionable.
In the very short term, 600,000 people would be lifted out of poverty, and wages could rise by as much as $6 billion.
That's why I'm supporting the plan that Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Monday to raise the minimum wage to $13.25. The men and women earning minimum wage deserve, at the very least, a paycheck that enables them to support their families. An increase in the minimum wage would not only be good for low-wage workers. It would also be good for the city, good for the economy and, in the long term, good for business. It is, simply put, the right thing to do
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obama refuses to use executive action to hike the minimum wage for Federal employees.
I install and repair Kiosks.. I can hardly wait for them to bump the min-wage high enough for it to make sense..
It’ll keep me busier than I wana be, but that’s alright. :)
in MN one McDonald’s owner said and I quote “I can’t wait till the kiosks and robots replace the help..”
“Could you support your family in Los Angeles on the current minimum wage?”
Uh, NO probably not, because if I have a family, I’d have to be some kind of irresponsible POS to even THINK that making minimum wage can support them.
I’d hopefully be well into some kind of career, if I’m bringing kids into the world.
NEVER accept a liberal’s premise. NEVER.
The minimum wage has always been a starter wage, for people beginning their work life.
You know, like teenagers.
It was never intended to be able to “support a family”.
This...+1 - If I was making “minimum wage”...I would not even be thinking about starting a family...much less supporting one.
It’s funny.
In the Bush era, Pelosi scorned fast food as “McJobs”
In the Era of Baraq, this is what the middle class is expected to aspire to.
The bigger chains will be able to afford them but the independents will probably be SOL.
Probably a lot of new really small “specialty” food sales will pop up that couldn’t work any other way, once people get used to food from a machine.
Good business to be in, you will be busy.
$15/hour minimum to clear toilets or ring up hamburgers.
Do these people realize that HP want to pay $14 an hour to “contractors” for experienced degreed professionals?
Embrace the suck.
...so of course they’ll do it.
If raising the minimum wage is so good then why is it always implemented gradually??
Also the price of living in L.A. is so high making $13 an hour still won’t get one in the housing market or the rental market for something decent.
“Of all major cities in the country, Los Angeles has the highest percentage of population living in poverty.”
Gee, I wonder why that is?
Broad has a lot of money; let him get the list of minimum wage earners and make up the difference personally btwn their wage and $15/hr. It will make him feel wunnerful!
Well said.
Good for the city, because they would collect more taxes.
Bad for the economy, because that is where the six bil comes from.
Bad for business, because it raises the price of stuff, so less people can afford to buy, and the business gets no net gains, as the extra is funneled to the worker's pockets, which then the business is stuck with higher matching taxes, state, local and federal.
'Tis nothing more than a rat money laundering scheme, and this billionaire gets no excoriation because he is a dem, you see.
HP through AT&T wants techs to go and repair their laptops and desktops that came with an onsite warranty. it can be parts swaps (DVD, Ram, Motherboards with tattooing) a list of things.. They will sometimes ask you to diagnose the problem if they guessed wrong..
So they want a contractor to start they’re car, drive to the customers site, install the parts, see if it works, follow “tech” supports direction that has NO time limit and that does not even take in to account the hold time to talk to said “tech” (yes, they have asked field techs to re-install windows, with backing up of user data) and on and on for... 47 bucks.. but wait.. it gets better, the service they use to find the tech also charges said tech between 10 and 14.7% so in the end, for 2-3 hours of your time you get.. about 40 bucks, that you get to pay for the gas required to get to the site, the taxes (all of them, no employer to match it) and on and on... Oh ya, then there is the paperwork... I did one of their jobs that looked easy and was near by.. a DVD swap. seemed easy enough. ya well, the DVD drive swap was not the problem, they wanted me to backup everything, re-install everything and put it back to the way it was when it came out of the box plus everything the customer had done to set it up the way they wanted it. Ya, no. Thankfully the customer said NO as well and demanded a replacement PC.
The IT field is really in the crapper.
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