Posted on 12/28/2015 12:39:07 PM PST by massmike
Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont are all scheduled for minimum wages increases on Jan. 1. Additionally, New York and West Virginia will be increasing their own minimum wages Dec. 31, according to Business and Legal Resources.
California and Massachusetts will have the highest Jan. 1 increase at $10.00 per hour. While the District of Columbia will have the highest increase in 2016 on July 1 at $11.50 per hour. Several states including Arkansas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan and Vermont are scheduled to increase their minimum wage again at the start of 2017.
The question of whether its a good idea to increase the minimum wage has been a significant issue. While supporters say it helps the poor by allowing them to more easily afford basic necessities, critics say it may actually hurt the poor by limiting job opportunities.
Some of the biggest increases are seen on the city level. “The Fight for $15†movement has been at the forefront of pushing for a $15 an hour minimum wage. Seattle led the way in passing the $15 minimum wage back in June 2014. San Francisco and Los Angeles followed not long after. Since then, many more cities have enacted their own $15 minimum wage. Like on the state level, each local ordinance is designed to phase in overtime.
New York, Massachusetts and Florida have all been considering their own $15 an hour proposal. New York was able to unilaterally enact a $15 minimum wage but only for fast-food and public sector employees. Gov. Andrew Cuomo will need legislative approval in order to pass a statewide increase for all industries.
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California and Massachusetts will have the highest Jan. 1 increase at $10.00 per hour. While the District of Columbia will have the highest increase in 2016 on July 1 at $11.50 per hour.
Those are the new wages, not the increases. Fairly self-explanatory, but still worded terribly.
Guess the higher minimum wage is needed to improve their high unemployment situation?
If increasing the minimum wage to $10/hr is a good idea, why not make it $100/hr and solve poverty in one swell foop?
With the exception of Arkansas - all these are liberal states.
So increases in minimum wage will mean EVERYTHING will be MORE expensive, but the recipients of Social Security will not receive one penny more this year. Tighten your belts again, those of you who worked for all your lifetime and now are relegated to the dead heap.
I wonder if there is a way to somehow chart this to publicly held companies in those states then bet against them.
Raise Prices and See Sales Go Through the Roof! Democrat Economics 101
Alaska, Nebraska?
“These 12 States Are Starting 2016 With Increased Subsidies For The Robot Industry”
Not a numbers guy but I will guess a few have the highest exodus numbers too
Nebraska is hardly a liberal state.
Fantastic....Guess what labor organizers.you lost your $$ base
The Seattle $15 wage has some issues.
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/is-seattles-minimum-wage-killing-jobs/
Also, we have a ways to go before the wage really hits $15. The largest employers must pay it beginning in 2017; smaller companies may have until 2021.
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http://murray.seattle.gov/minimumwage/#sthash.c7DCqfH7.VpEScjg1.dpbs
Schedule 1 employers (more than 500 employees in the U.S.)
Schedule 1 employers shall pay each employee an hourly minimum wage of at least:
$11.00 by April 1,
2015 $13.00 by January 1,
2016 $15.00 by January 1, 2017
"Work is great, now that humans are pricing themselves out of work." said checkout #324 at San Dimas McDonalds #2589. "Sure we work long hours and have no vacation or sick time, but dammit..we are only machines." said the recently installed equipment. "If I had human emotions, which I don't, I would have been moved when all those young entry level employees had to be let go because humans in power have no understanding of basic economics. Oh well, I must take this order."
What is rarely acknowledged is that it is not only the minimum that will be raised, but the wages of those who recently received raises from the minimum wage. In many cases wage scales will have to revised across the board.
I used to be opposed to minimum wage hikes. And, given a liberty-focused government for several years, I would want to get rid of them. But here’s the plain, ugly facts:
There is no free market at play. And precisely because of the unemployment situation, we’re not dealing with teenagers. This isn’t 1950s America anymore.
No-one really makes less than $15 an hour in most of the areas covered by these minimum wages. McDonald’s pays them $7, and then the taxpayer subsidizes the rest.
Again: This isn’t about raising minimum wages; this is about ending the taxpayer subsidization of wages.
And it’s worse than that:
It’s entirely true that most Americans WON’T work for only $7 an hour... because they get more from federal assistance if they don’t. So the people who we’re talking about not hiring aren’t the unemployed; they are illegal aliens.
Again, fewer low-wage workers doesn’t mean more unemployment; it means fewer illegal aliens.
When we get rid of illegal aliens, and taxpayer subsidization of adult wages, I’ll figure the free market can set the minimum wage. Until then, screw McDonald’s. I don’t want to see my country destroyed so McDonald’s can sell $1.09 double cheeseburgers instead of $1.29 double cheeseburgers.
I’ll gladly pay $.20 more for my double cheeseburger... and probably save twice as much in national debt.
Another move to enrich China!
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