Posted on 06/02/2015 8:06:45 AM PDT by PROCON
Child-care assistant Eunice Medina, 23, was thrilled when Oakland's minimum wage took effect in March. But almost as quickly, Medina's workdays were cut and her hours shaved from eight to six..
Her employer, Asiya Jabbaar, says she had no choice. Despite slicing hours and laying off one of three assistants, Jabbaar says she still may need to close her business next year and convert it to a part-time after-school program.
It's a big letdown for the 38-year-old Jabbaar, who launched Reaching Beyond Care in 2010 from her East Oakland loft apartment.
Her experience illustrates what can happen to small employers when minimum wages jump suddenly. The effect on licensed or government-regulated entities, such as Jabbaar's, can be particularly sharp.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The old saying that liberals just love poor people because they make so many poor with their policies, is shown once again.
They love poor people to make political hay out of!
Grr.
Oakland gwine BURN..now!!
No Real Pay Raise!! No Peace!!
Cascade effect. The daycare has to close because the owner can’t afford the government-mandated staff. Daycare rates go up across the board. Parents who can’t afford the higher fees either use off-the-record care or leave their jobs and go on the dole full time.
Democrat politicians win.
UNEXPECTED!
My eyes rolled so far back in my head I almost passed out.
Your answer makes the most sense to a logical person; me, I don’t think the ‘rats are that smart, they’re policies just always fail.
Any bets, 'cause I say they're that stupid seeing how they raised the minimum wage with NO idea of the consequences...
Classic...
Women, children hardest hit.
The comments on that article are absolutely breathtaking in their stupidity.
And, don't forget the precious minorities...
..... Their entire philosophy is based upon the unstable, unmeasurable, immature and childish concepts of Emotions and Fairness.
.... All that one has to do to control these so called Useful Idiots is to appeal to their emotions and their need for fairness. It's like a drug to them ... they cannot move outside those parameters of enlightened existence. They need to continually feed upon those things to make themselves feel good.
The comments show EXACTLY why California is in the mess they are in..................Breathtaking stupidity doesn’t even to begin to describe the idiocy found there.................
By raising minimum wage to $15 per hour, women who made $20 an hour and cleared $10/hr after taxes and childcare now net nothing after taxes and childcare.
End result, fewer women can afford to work.
Yes, it always is emotion and “feel good” for liberals, and then reality sets in.
 Let's Git-R-Done! |
Thomas Sowell has suggested that the Democrats know exactly what they’re doing, and that what seems like failure to us is the very outcome they intended.
There’s really a simple solution to this: new laws that mandate a minimum number of employees per business and a minimum number of hours for each employee to go along with the minimum wage. That’s really the only way to fix the economy.
There's really a simple solution to this: new laws that mandate a minimum number of employees per business and a minimum number of hours for each employee to go along with the minimum wage. That's really the only way to fix the economy.
Liberals are incredibly stupid.
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