Posted on 03/27/2017 11:00:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Baltimore's Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh has vetoed a bill that would have raised the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The unprecedented veto of a "Fight for 15" wage bill by a Democrat points to the growing evidence from other cities that the economic damage caused by a $15 an hour minimum isn't worth the job losses and economic slowdown that results from the increase.
The council meets April 3 and could overturn the Mayor’s veto with support from 12 of the 15 members. It is unlikely that the council will veto the Mayor’s decision, with the Baltimore Sun reporting that the coalition of supporter for the bill crumbled.
In 2016, former Democratic City Council President Bernard Young warned that any initiative to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour could cost new jobs.
Young asserted that a $15 per hour wage would hurt the city of Baltimore. “Maybe now is not the time for us to be doing this,” Young said at the time, warning that the business community was monitoring the situation closely.
Such a wage increase should occur at a statewide level, Young argued, and not in the city by itself.
Recently elected members of the Baltimore City council supported veteran council member Mary Pat Clarke’s proposal to raise the city’s minimum wage to five dollars higher than surrounding communities, ignoring some longtime Democrats who have warned that such an increase could discourage new business opportunities for the city.
Clarke argued that a $15 wage provides “justice for the working people who have worked so hard to build this city and can’t earn enough at their jobs to make ends meet.”
Former President Barack Obama proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour in 2013..
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Granted, they've historically been nothing more than a rubber stamp for the mayor (in the past Daley, currently Rahm Emmanuel.)
Wow. Ridiculous.
She’s not a supermodel, but at least she dresses with class.
The light is starting to come through, even to Dems....
My God, so what I heard on the radio this morning...is really that?
It’s true?
When are the pigs flying?
“Such a wage increase should occur at a statewide level, Young argued, and not in the city by itself.”
OH, YES, by all means. THAT would work!
/s
“the working people who have worked so hard to build this city”
Those people are LOOONNNNG gone.
My grandfather and his family, most of them all long departed and their offspring - departed from the city.
My mother knew it WAS a great city, until the Riots. Never been truly great since. The people since - are not “workers” and did not “build” the city, but tear it down.
“Before you all go on cheering her, she’s doing nothing more than passing the buck to Republican Governor, Larry Hogan of Maryland.”
Uh, no.
Read again.
That is a quote from former councilman. Not the mayor.
No, you messed up quotes. Wrong person.
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