Posted on 03/31/2016 7:05:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders reached a tentative deal on Thursday to raise New York state's minimum wage towards $15 per hour but fell short of a uniform state-wide increase, lawmakers said.
The deal outlines a faster rise in New York City, but carves out a slow lane for small businesses and its surrounding counties. In less prosperous areas north of the city it rises to $12.50 per hour before a state review of the law's impact.
The minimum wage has been a sticking point in difficult budget negotiations that threaten to delay a spending plan past the start of the state's fiscal year on April 1. The agreement still needs to be approved by lawmakers...
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$32K to work at McDs. That will be the new baseline for all further wage demands. A teacher starts out at about 35K, look for school budgets to bust their caps.
Look for there to be no low skill jobs left in CA or NY and for many of the small businesses to move out of those tax hellholes.
This should completely finish off upstate, NY
Where?
Robots await their jobs...
Look out, Dixie!!!!!!
We’re about to be flooded with New Yorkers and Californians!!!!!!
I am embarrassed to be from New York — a state that takes away my right to negotiate with my employer. All this will do is put people on the unemployment line in any situation where: a) a job can be outsourced to another state or b) can be replaced by automation.
More good news for Texas.
National Average Starting Teacher Salary: $36,141 ... New York, $43,839.
“Steck, however, who represents a district 165 miles (265 km)north of the city, argued that the opposite was true, and a lower minimum wage would be a blow to the upstate economy.
“We have a very strapped economy in upstate New York and the surest way to ensure continued poverty is to run a low wage economy.” he said. “If anything, the poorer areas of the state needed an increase in the minimum wage more.”
Only a politician could use logic like this.
Yes it will.
My area is close to being a ghost town during the summer months. It the winter, it is a ghost town.
Gee, the democraps are buying votes from the worthless Trans-Sex studies degreed college grads, now working at Micky-Dee’s for minimum wage. Color me surprised...
Something I have not heard mentioned, higher wages result in higher taxes paid to the State and Federal governments.
Proves they don’t care about the low income worker, but tax collections primarily.
I think civilians get a minimum wage of raise, our service men should first. Currently enlistees make less than nine dollars an hours.
Border states will do well.
So getting an actual degree and doing skilled/educated work gets you just $10,000/yr more than flipping burgers ... an extra $38/day (never mind _paying_ for that degree).
At some point society may just pivot and decide the bulk of jobs really don’t pay enough more to bother working for per all the effort & training & stress required to get not much more than sweeping floors.
Y’all wonder “why don’t they just raise minimum wage to $25? $100? etc”?
Somewhere there’s a graph floating around showing the _total_ pay for a per-hour wage, including available welfare benefits. Seems the sweet spot for low wages is $12-15/hr, which still garners some pretty generous entitlements on top of the pay. Above that, those entitlements plummet, requiring one to earn upwards of $36/hr just to break even with the $12/hr+entitlements gross income. $15/hr _sounds_ better, but starts losing additional benefits fast; above that you actually make substantially _less_ for quite some time.
So...it’s not until you’re making something like $72,000/yr that you gain any appreciable improvements over $15/hr minimum wage plus welfare/entitlements. They don’t want to bump minimum wage above $15/hr because people will discover, the hard way, how completely ****ed up the welfare system really is.
Other “destination” states will do well too. I’m surprised how many NYers end up in Georgia - comparable environment without the snow and without the terminally-Leftist sociopolitical environment.
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