Gov. Wolf pushes for raising minimum wage as part of Pennsylvania's pandemic recovery plan

21 News ^ | 5/26/2020 | 21 Nes

[mikelets456]

Harrisburg, PA — This morning Governor Tom Wolf is releasing a plan to help Pennsylvania residents recover from the pandemic.

The governor is calling the recovery framework paramount in the recovery process and is pushing for fair, family sustaining wages for all Pennsylvanians.

That would increase the minimum wage for all residents to $12/hour with a path to increasing that number to $15/hour and would provide additional hazard pay to essential workers amid the pandemic.

Gov. Wolf says the state will work to enact better employee protection standards that would protect workers from losing their job if they have to self-isolate due to the coronavirus.

That plan would also expand student loan forgiveness and repayment plans, focusing on debt relief for individuals on the front lines of the pandemic.

[angcat]

I would prefer drop dead.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Wolf is just one of many Democrat governor morons...all of them enemies of the state and the American people that live in their states. Deadbeat states are, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Maine, Delaware, California.

And. your beloved Democrats, Scum & Vermin, Obama, Biden, Hunter Biden/Pelsoi/Schumer were hand in hand in lockstep working with the PRC (China) to launch a biological attack on the USA and the entire world. I told ya all that Obama was the head Kingpin to destroy Trump thru Flynn and, I was dead right on. Wake up...the Democrat Party needs to be totally destroyed politically right now!!!

[William Tell]

Government price controls on labor. What a great idea. We should have the government dictate the price of everything. Anybody remember Carter’s gas lines and the full oil tankers idling off the coasts? Wasn’t that fun?

[I want the USA back]

Stupid, stupid, stupid! These idiots think that businesses can just issue money. Actually, it’s only the federal government that issues money with no value. Businesses have to earn a profit, or they must close. The government can spend money that it doesn’t have. Not so for normal people.

[IrishBrigade]

‘PA is a weird state with weird laws.’

PA still lives subject to the ghost of Governor Gifford Pinchot, who never knew a person he thought shouldn’t be bossed around...

[Redwood71]

Aren’t these governmental people in blue states going to be surprised when all the businesses they are hammering move to red states where they can expect a better opportunity to be left alone to do their profession? We’ve seen many examples of this and it is going to start a recession at state level that is going to starve folks. The liberal governors will try to blame it on Trump, but that is going to be a real stretch to do as it has already become a problem with states that overstep their entitlements and under supply their capacity. Some like California are really feeling the crunch. Can’t bleed a turnip.

1,800 companies either relocated or “disinvested” in the formerly Golden State in 2016 alone due to the horrible business environment. An example of this is the California’s Immigrant Worker Protection Act. It sounds innocuous, even virtuous, but it isn’t. The law basically calls it a crime to follow federal immigration law. Of course, failing to follow federal immigration law is also a crime. Companies can’t win, they can only lose.

The economy is alive right now, but for the wrong reasons. Thanks mostly to Silicon Valley and the digital media boom in Los Angeles, California is indeed doing adequate right now economically, at least in a macroeconomic sense. A massive influx of Southeast Asian investment money, looking for a Pacific Rim-friendly foothold in the U.S., has helped. Hello, China.

But don’t be deceived. In the next downturn, the state’s stock-market dependent finances will once again tumble deeply into the red, and the economy will no longer be spinning out new jobs. By then, many of the long-term, stable employers will have left.

This is enough of a pattern with blue states to display their failure at overstepping themselves. I can remember when a few years ago California had to send out IOU’s for tax returns, 2009. Get ready for a repeat performance.

rwood

[Carriage Hill]

Ping.

[ridesthemiles]

A very special kind of STUPID.

[BikerJoe]

Surprised it took this long to come out in the open. Our state rep told us Wolf wanted this in exchange for reopening the state BACK IN EARLY APRIL!!!!!

[melancholy]

I think the democrap party should be outlawed. One anti communist dem, McCarthy, was right all along.

PA is a well to do state or am I missing something here? Where’s all the revenue from nat gas alone? Why not use this wealth to drop the tax on gasoline?

Any state ruled by the likes of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh dem cheats is doomed.

[lightman]

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Tommie the Commie would do more for business by letting his "Green Phase" be what that meant when he first started coloring on April 23:

Green Phase

The green phase eases most restrictions by lifting the stay at home and business closure orders to allow the economy to strategically reopen while continuing to prioritize public health.

While this phase will facilitate a return to a “new normal,” it will be equally important to continue to monitor public health indicators and adjust orders and restrictions as necessary to ensure the spread of disease remains at a minimum.

Work & Congregate Setting Restrictions All Businesses Must Follow CDC and PA Department of Health Guidelines

Social Restrictions

Aggressive Mitigation Orders Lifted
All Individuals Must Follow CDC and PA Department of Health Guidelines
Monitor public health indicators, adjust orders and restrictions as necessary

That was then

This is now

That scraping sound you hear is of goal posts moving yet again.

[Mastador1]

WTF kind of moron is he?

The same kind as in California and the other states with democrap leadership that do not/can not comprehend basic logic. If you price products and services out of reach of the masses than they won't be able to purchase those products and services and the providers will either lay off employees or shut their doors.

And then there is the the trickle up effect no one talks about, if you increase wages at the bottom then there is a trickle up effect of price increase to pay for it. The only ones that benefit from minimum wage increases are some unions with wages tied to the minimum and state and federal tax collectors.

[upchuck]

Interesting... there’s nothing in the article explaining how all this fiscal insanity is going to be paid for.

Glad I don’t live in PA.

[napscoordinator]

I’ll say. I’m glad your able to bypass the state without giving them a dime. I say that not in a thrilling way since I grew up in the state. But it has changed for the worse since 1987 when I moved away forever at 18.