Joe Biden will sign executive orders to lay groundwork for $15 minimum wage for federal workers, boost food stamps and increase COVID aid

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 22 2021 | EMILY GOODIN

[knighthawk]

President Joe Biden will sign another round of executive orders on Friday, these aimed at providing assistance for those facing food insecurity, protecting American workers and providing economic relief to struggling families.

Biden kicked off his presidency with a series of orders aimed at undoing much of President Donald Trump's legacy and helping those devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.

On Friday he will sign executive orders aimed at speeding up delivery of stimulus checks to families who haven't received them and increasing food aid for children who normally rely on school meals as a main source of food.

[Kickass Conservative]

Which Federal Employees don’t make $15 an Hour?

[Kickass Conservative]

Make that which Federal Employees don’t already make AT LEAST $15 an Hour?

[nuconvert]

“increasing food aid for children who normally rely on school meals as a main source of food.”

and that’s supposed to stop them from getting free meals from schools ? Or just give them even more free stuff?

[Ebenezer]

So far, a government by decree, with Congress dedicating all its time to persecuting Trump.

[doc maverick]

Covid aid to WHO?
Big Tech silencers so they can trace every man woman child and Trump supporters an impose censorship?
And the rest will disappear into the pockets of the occupiers.

[Bob434]

Joe Biden, in the “minds” of the slobbering lapdogs in the msm, will do great wonders and piss little cucumbers.

Why fro the very first day I. Office, the who was so impressed by him that they changed how Ovid is to be diagnosed now, making it harder to diagnose a person who died from a skiing accident, or a car wreck, to be listed as having died from covid.

And viola, the death rate o f covid miraculously drops dramatically under dear leader.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

King of the Welfare State

[teevolt]

I think Fed Union contracts are constructed where the pay is a multiple of this min wage. That would be the impact beyond just the political messaging.

[EinNYC]

Laying the foundation for redistribution of wealth to Dimmocommie causes, illegals, and the garbage of our society. And for our bankruptcy.

[Nuke From Orbit]

Is Congress even needed anymore? What the hell happened to the oversight committees? Does anyone know when the Executive order processes started to become a major even after an election? I just don’t remember there being so many and sweeping legal nightmares like this.

[Leep]

If it were not for politics..b iden would be on welfare..oh wait
..he mostly has been for nearly a half a century.

[ProudVet97]

“Which Federal Employees don’t make $15 an Hour?”

I may be mistaken but I believe it pertains to contracted employee. It’s written in the govt contract that all employees working on the project must be paid $15

I remember that when it went to $10/hr

[griswold3]

Are their union contracts tethered to an increase in min. wage?
As when the min wage goes up ie $3, all fed wages increase $3.

[Gen.Blather]

At my first job, as a union bag boy for a company the union later drove under, I learned something amazing that is never mentioned in the press. Since we were all making in excess of the then $1.65 minim hourly wage, I asked why the union was spending money attempting to raise the minimum wage. The union boss rolled his eyes and said, “Because every union contract has its pay based on a percentage above minim wage. We raise the minimum and all of you get an automatic raise.” And, when I worked there, every time the minimum wage was raised we all got an equivalent bump in pay.

The minimum wage, which has done untold damage to blacks and people who have minimal qualifications, is all about bribing the unions to vote for them. Good Will used to employ lots of people who were otherwise unemployable. Today, they employ no one in that category. Why? Because the increase in minimum wages meant they could no longer employ the people they were set up to help.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-differential-impact-of-the-minimum-wage/

Thomas Sowell on the differential impact of the minimum wage

May 31, 2016

I’ve featured a lot of material lately on CD from Thomas Sowell, and will continue today with another gem of economic wisdom from Sowell, taken from his 2007 book Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy from the chapter “Controlled Labor Markets” in the section titled “Differential Impact“:

In country after country around the world, those whose employment prospects are reduced most by minimum wage laws are those who are younger, less experienced or less skilled…..

Another group disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws are members of unpopular racial or ethnic minority groups. Indeed, minimum wage laws were once advocated explicitly because of the likelihood that such laws would reduce or eliminate the competition of particular minorities, whether they were Japanese in Canada during the 1920s or blacks in the United States and South Africa during the same era. Such expressions of overt racial discrimination were both legal and socially accepted in all three countries at that time.

Again, it is necessary to note how price is a factor even in racial discrimination. That is, surplus labor resulting from minimum wage laws makes it cheaper to discriminate against minority workers than it would be in a free market, where there is no chronic excess supply of labor. Passing up qualified minority workers in a free market means having to hire more other workers to take the jobs they were denied, and that in turn usually means either having to raise the pay to attract the additional workers or lower the job qualifications at the existing pay level – both of which amount to the same thing economically, higher labor costs for getting a given amount of work done.

The history of black workers in the United States illustrates the point. From the late nineteenth-century on through the middle of the twentieth century, the labor force participation rate of American blacks was slightly higher than that of American whites. In other words, blacks were just as employable as the wages they received as whites were at their very different wages. The minimum wage law changed that. Before federal minimum wage laws were instituted in the 1930s, the black unemployment rate was slightly lower than the white unemployment rate in 1930. But then followed the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933 and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 – all of which imposed government-mandated minimum wages, either on a particular sector or more broadly.

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which promoted unionization, also tended to price black workers out of jobs, in addition to union rules that kept blacks from jobs by barring them from union membership. The NIRA raised wages in the Southern textile industry by 70 percent in just five months and its impact nationwide was estimated to have cost blacks half a million jobs. While this Act was later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the FLSA was upheld by the High Court and became the major force establishing a national minimum wage.

……

By 1954, black unemployment rates were double those of whites and have continued to be at that level or higher. Those particularly hard hit by the resulting unemployment have been black teenage males.

………….

Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-old black males was no higher than among white males of the same age in 1948. It was only after a series of minimum wage escalations began that black male teenage unemployment rates not only skyrocketed but became more than double the unemployment rates among white male teenagers.

MP: For the first four months of 2016, the average white male teenage jobless rate was 14.8% compared to the average black male teenage jobless rate of 26.2%.

Update: Chart has been added at the top of the post, showing annual averages for teenage jobless rates for white vs. black males. Over the 45-year period going back to 1972, the average teenage jobless rate for black males (36.6%) was more than twice the average jobless rate for white male teens (16.8%).

[GreyFriar]

A GS-1, Step one’s year’s pay is $19,738. With 2080 hours in a year, that includes paid holidays and 2 weeks leave, it equal $9.49 per hour. I don’t think I ever saw a Fed Job that was advertised to start as GS-1. That was usually the wage that a part time intern/summer hire received.

Here is the GS pay schedule: https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2021

or go to:
https://www.federaljobs.net/salarybase.htm

Some years ago, there was, and there may still be, a separate pay wage based upon skills, like a union job and not GS. Perhaps someone can find it.

[chrisser]

Are we still going to get that $2000 on day one, Joe?

[spudville]

Joe is going back to the Obama criteria of success. The more people on welfare and food stamps the more successful government becomes.

[spudville]

Are we still going to get that $2000 on day one, Joe?

Remember he promised to cure cancer as well. The clock is running Joe.
How many people has Joe murdered with Covid since he’s been inaugurated? If people are dying he is personally mishandling the problem.