The article doesn’t really add much to this discussion.
The law doesn’t start until April 2015.
And, it phases in over 3 years.
And, there are all kinds of exemptions, like a special low wage for teenagers, and special rules for small businesses.
Our state minimum wage will be $9.47 on 01 January 2015.
Seattle will go to $11.00 on 01 April 2015, and $15.00 on 01 January 2017.
Personally, I support any increase in the minimum wage.
It is financial shock therapy for our deranged LEGAL immigration policies.
Since the Reagan Amnesty in 1986, America has deliberately and LEGALLY imported 20 million low skill, low education foreign workers.
Many people at Free Republic avidly support that LEGAL policy.
Unfortunately, that policy has crushed the wage scale for ALL low skill workers in America.
OK.
So YOU lkike a higher minimum wage.
Now. What the workers going to do to EARN their higher wages YOU approve of?
Are THEY going to work 20% faster, 25% more accurately, 30% more efficiently and productively? Are THEY going to produce 20% more product while using 20% LESS material and tolls?
Average “profit” is under 3% ... Where is the “extra money” going to come from?