Minimum Wage To Rise In 8 States

The Denver Channel ^ | 10/03/11 | Tami Luhby

[Libloather]

Minimum Wage To Rise In 8 States
Bumps Range From 28 Cents To 37 Cents Per Hour
Tami Luhby
UPDATED: 2:54 pm MDT October 3, 2011

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Minimum-wage workers in eight states could see their paychecks grow by hundreds of dollars next year, thanks to automatic annual increases in the rates.

Colorado, Montana, Ohio, Washington and Oregon recently announced their 2012 minimum wages, which contain bumps ranging from 28 cents to 37 cents per hour. This translates into annual raises of between $582 and $770 for full-time workers at that end of the pay scale depending on where they live.

Washington workers enjoy the highest minimum wage, which will rise to $9.04, a boost of 37 cents per hour and $770 per year.

Arizona, Florida and Vermont are expected to announce the increases in their rates in coming weeks.

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An effort to increase the federal minimum wage may be launched next year, Kern said.

[Libloather]

Thanks, Unca Teddy.

[RockinRight]

Breaking: unemployment to rise in 8 states

[Bean Counter]

[nascarnation]

An effort to increase the federal minimum wage may be launched next year

Why not, the Baraqqi Era of Maximum Prosperity should deliver no less.....

[the invisib1e hand]

supply and demand in reverse.

[cripplecreek]

LOL mmm Cearl

[cripplecreek]

When I was younger I supported the minimum wage but as I got older and extracted my head from my rectum I realized the problem.

Eliminating the minimum wage won’t cause business to cut it to 50 cents. A business that does will struggle to find employees because they’d be working next door making 75 cents.....and so forth. I think we would see a small dip in wages but it wouldn’t be a lot and they would come back up.

[LostInBayport]

Minimum-wage workers in eight states could see their paychecks grow by hundreds of dollars next year,

...or they may get reduced hours, a pink slip or an increased workload to make up for the fact that one of their co-workers was laid off.

[PastorBooks]

With mikl and sugr

[headstamp 2]

Tell me that is not intended to mean “Cereal”.

[cranked]

Sowing the seeds of their own impending implosions.... =.=

[Maurice Tift]

   Washington workers enjoy the highest minimum wage, which will rise to $9.04, a boost of 37 cents per hour and $770 per year.

  Employers can always go to the magic money tree and get an extra $770 per employee --- unless there really isn't a magical money tree - so then some employees are fired and the rest have a little bit of extra work to do ---- so the fired employees can get money from unemployment insurance which the government can fund indefinitely with the use of massive magical money trees (which don't really exist)

[cripplecreek]

Because Brawndo’s got electrolytes?

[Maurice Tift]

   Washington workers enjoy the highest minimum wage, which will rise to $9.04, a boost of 37 cents per hour and $770 per year.

  Employers can always go to the magic money tree and get an extra $770 per employee --- unless there really isn't a magical money tree - so then some employees are fired and the rest have a little bit of extra work to do ---- so the fired employees can get money from unemployment insurance which the government can fund indefinitely with the use of massive magical money trees (which don't really exist)

[Bean Counter]

Right out of Grocery Warehouse (”Bargains only!”).

[Maurice Tift]

I think I clicked twice.

[cripplecreek]

If I owned a grocery store, I would be real tempted to fire whoever wrote that sign.

[wayoverontheright]

Breaking: unemployment to rise in 8 states....

And to the extent that it doesn't, then the price of goods and services produced in that state will go up.

Or a combination of the two.

[NonValueAdded]

Timely article by Thomas Sowell: 'Stop Whining'? (Thomas Sowell)

Remember, the genesis of minimum wage laws was to force Blacks out of the workforce.

[Myrddin]

Tell me that is not intended to mean “Cereal”.

Why not? A bank renamed itself to "Soveran" instead of Sovereign because their primary customer demographic was too dumb to spell it correctly.