In fact, the lowest soldiers in drug gangs actually make less than minimum wage - legit work that pays below minimum wage is illegal. We know this from financial records that have been recovered.
Here comes inflation ! (?)
Three concerned elected citizens sitting there shaking their heads.
I still don't understand why they don't make it $1,000 per hour, or $10,000 per hour. As long as they are raising it, why be pikers?
Ah, yes...the ole American Samoa caveat....
I don't think I heard any Senator discuss Am. Samoa...so we will have to check.
Thanks for reminding me.
Bush still needs to sign it, right?
Is this the version with or without the "Schumer-Gordon Smith (R-Ore)" domestic-partner benefit provision slipped into it (in the dark of night)?
Will the Senate repeal gravity next? Last I checked, the minimum wage is still zero.
Is American Samoa included?
Senator DeMint serves as a senior adviser to the Romney for President Exploratory Committee.
The minimum wage hike is one of the biggest fiascos out there.
It benefits relatively few. When even formerly "Minimum wage" jobs don't even pay that low, what is the point?
Further - the unions like it because so many of their contracts are based on a multiplier of the minimum wage.
Politicians like it because they then claim to "care for the poor worker". I don't know about you - but the only people I know working for "minimum wage" are entry-level jobs primarily occupied by high school students. Heck - I made more than the current minimum wage while I was working at a pizza joint in college...and that was 14 years ago...
And as I heard discussed a few weeks back when this minimum wage junk first started getting lots of press - it says something for the "quality" of worker if they continue to make minimum wage for ANY significant length of time after hire...
Heck - even the illegal Mexican & Central American laborers around here make a lot more than minimum wage (within 2 miles of where I sit typing this post, there are probably 20 illegals who make between $10 and $12 per hour, not to mention that housing is provided).
There is a grand total of TWO businesses within two cities of me that pay minimum wage - a grocery store and a Sonic Drive In. And even those don't keep you at minimum wage for too long...
Well these anti-American bastards had better not whine about the balance of trade any more --- they just drove off about another million jobs offshore. If there any left to drive off.....
Freaking idiots. All for votes and buying more socialism.
In fact, the lowest soldiers in drug gangs actually make less than minimum wage - legit work that pays below minimum wage is illegal. We know this from financial records that have been recovered.
FINALLY! Only a few more approvals, and poverty will be gone! No one will go hungry! Everyone can afford to support their families and eat fruits and vegetables and watch cable tv. YAY!
/sarcarm, but I hope its that obvious.
I was in Pago Pago less than a year ago, for three months, and talked to several of the old time maintenance men at the Tuna plant there. They ALL said that if the wages were raised to meet the US Minimum Wage Standard that the plant would most likely close. Competition from SE Asia Plants and the low tuna fleet production was the reasons I heard. So this would be an example of companies closing to wage hikes contrary to Democrat propoganda.