7 million workers will get a raise on Jan. 1 with minimum-wage increases

[Fort Fun Indiana]

So, the prices to consumers will increase- that means less for those paying the wages- consumers.

Oh yeah, professor? By how much? Let's see your math.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The State has no business trying to control the prices for anything....

Haha, another irrelevant Randian...

 

[YoursTruly]

Well...about time...most would say--and a clear victory for those who have long agitated for such things..of note..this is not just a Blue state thing:



"The surge in higher minimum wages comes after years of lobbying and demonstrations from labor groups like the Fight for $15, which sprang up in 2012 to advocate for a living wage of $15 an hour. At the time, its goals struck some critics as far-fetched, but widening income inequality and spiraling housing costs are placing pressure on lawmakers to pass higher minimum wages.

Record-low unemployment across most of the country also has played a role, forcing employers to bid up wages to attract qualified employees. Late last year, Amazon raised its base pay for workers at warehouse operations around the country to $15. Even the conservative TV network Sinclair Broadcasting, after railing against minimum wage hikes in on-air commentaries, announced this month it would raise its starting pay to $15 an hour come December 29."

Workers in half of U.S. states will get a pay raise in 2020



States with wage hikes on Jan. 1
Each of the 21 states that are boosting their minimum wages at year-start, with their new minimum wage and percentage increase.

• Alaska - $10.19 (3%)
• Arizona - $12 (9.1%)
• Arkansas - $10 (8.1%)
• California - $13 (8.3%)
• Colorado - $12 (8.1%)
• Florida - $8.56 (1.2%)
• Illinois - $9.25 (12%)
• Maine - $12 (9.1%)
• Maryland - $11 (8.9%)
• Massachusetts - $12.75 (6.3%)
• Michigan - $9.65 (2.1%)
• Minnesota - $10 (1.4%)
• Missouri - $9.45 (9.9%)
• Montana - $8.65 (1.8%)
• New Jersey - $11 (10%)
• New Mexico - $9 (20%)
• New York - $11.80 (6.3%)
• Ohio - $8.70 (1.8%)
• South Dakota - $9.30 (2.2%)
• Vermont - $10.96 (1.7%)
• Washington - $13.50 (12.5%)

It's my educated opinion that minimum wage hikes are somewhat necessary. Low wages are a reaction to the Federal Reserve and he governments monetary policies, that create money from nothing. Then spend trillions with nothing to back the value THEY set. The more the government borrow, with interest, the more they spend. Every dollar that's borrowed and spent, reduces the value of the money already in existence.
Therefore, minimum wage hikes are necessary to keep the countries economy from ending up like Mexico. As we can see, Mexico is a HUGE slave labor camp. There economy is kept artificially stagnant so the corporations can continue their near slave labor wages. And we can enjoy our $99 sofa's, 2 for a dollar avocados and our $29.99 alternators with the lifetime guarantee's *that we'll have to replace every year for our life time)

Those opponents to the minimum wage hikes forget that in the 80's minimum wages were like $3.50hr. After it was raised, in fact every time it was raised, more jobs & businesses were still created. In short, everything adjusted itself, and we were back in business.

Minimum wages are just a symptom of the Federal Reserves money creation and over inflating the value.

$15hr sounds good to some, sound bad to others. But it's still just a symptom. Not the cause.

 

[Oddball]

The State has no business trying to control the prices for anything....

Haha, another irrelevant Randian...

Haha, another moronic Marxist.

 

[Oddball]

Well...about time...most would say--and a clear victory for those who have long agitated for such things..of note..this is not just a Blue state thing:



"The surge in higher minimum wages comes after years of lobbying and demonstrations from labor groups like the Fight for $15, which sprang up in 2012 to advocate for a living wage of $15 an hour. At the time, its goals struck some critics as far-fetched, but widening income inequality and spiraling housing costs are placing pressure on lawmakers to pass higher minimum wages.

Record-low unemployment across most of the country also has played a role, forcing employers to bid up wages to attract qualified employees. Late last year, Amazon raised its base pay for workers at warehouse operations around the country to $15. Even the conservative TV network Sinclair Broadcasting, after railing against minimum wage hikes in on-air commentaries, announced this month it would raise its starting pay to $15 an hour come December 29."

Workers in half of U.S. states will get a pay raise in 2020



States with wage hikes on Jan. 1
Each of the 21 states that are boosting their minimum wages at year-start, with their new minimum wage and percentage increase.

• Alaska - $10.19 (3%)
• Arizona - $12 (9.1%)
• Arkansas - $10 (8.1%)
• California - $13 (8.3%)
• Colorado - $12 (8.1%)
• Florida - $8.56 (1.2%)
• Illinois - $9.25 (12%)
• Maine - $12 (9.1%)
• Maryland - $11 (8.9%)
• Massachusetts - $12.75 (6.3%)
• Michigan - $9.65 (2.1%)
• Minnesota - $10 (1.4%)
• Missouri - $9.45 (9.9%)
• Montana - $8.65 (1.8%)
• New Jersey - $11 (10%)
• New Mexico - $9 (20%)
• New York - $11.80 (6.3%)
• Ohio - $8.70 (1.8%)
• South Dakota - $9.30 (2.2%)
• Vermont - $10.96 (1.7%)
• Washington - $13.50 (12.5%)

It's my educated opinion that minimum wage hikes are somewhat necessary. Low wages are a reaction to the Federal Reserve and he governments monetary policies, that create money from nothing. Then spend trillions with nothing to back the value THEY set. The more the government borrow, with interest, the more they spend. Every dollar that's borrowed and spent, reduces the value of the money already in existence.
Therefore, minimum wage hikes are necessary to keep the countries economy from ending up like Mexico. As we can see, Mexico is a HUGE slave labor camp. There economy is kept artificially stagnant so the corporations can continue their near slave labor wages. And we can enjoy our $99 sofa's, 2 for a dollar avocados and our $29.99 alternators with the lifetime guarantee's *that we'll have to replace every year for our life time)

Those opponents to the minimum wage hikes forget that in the 80's minimum wages were like $3.50hr. After it was raised, in fact every time it was raised, more jobs & businesses were still created. In short, everything adjusted itself, and we were back in business.

Minimum wages are just a symptom of the Federal Reserves money creation and over inflating the value.

$15hr sounds good to some, sound bad to others. But it's still just a symptom. Not the cause.

In most cases, MW hikes are irrelevant to the lowest wages being paid in most areas...This business adds up to little more than political theater, in order to maintain the myth that the politicians are even necessary to the lives of the hoi polloy....There's also evidence to support the claim that the increases are baselines by which bureaucrat unions use to demand raises and more benefits.

 

[YoursTruly]

With the Feds practices still in place, and not going to change any time soon, $15hr will be a poverty wage by the time it gets to $15hr.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Haha, another moronic Marxist.

Clearly you have no idea what Marxism is. But you truly are a misguided Randian.

 

[sealybobo]

Well...about time...most would say--and a clear victory for those who have long agitated for such things..of note..this is not just a Blue state thing:



"The surge in higher minimum wages comes after years of lobbying and demonstrations from labor groups like the Fight for $15, which sprang up in 2012 to advocate for a living wage of $15 an hour. At the time, its goals struck some critics as far-fetched, but widening income inequality and spiraling housing costs are placing pressure on lawmakers to pass higher minimum wages.

Record-low unemployment across most of the country also has played a role, forcing employers to bid up wages to attract qualified employees. Late last year, Amazon raised its base pay for workers at warehouse operations around the country to $15. Even the conservative TV network Sinclair Broadcasting, after railing against minimum wage hikes in on-air commentaries, announced this month it would raise its starting pay to $15 an hour come December 29."

Workers in half of U.S. states will get a pay raise in 2020



States with wage hikes on Jan. 1
Each of the 21 states that are boosting their minimum wages at year-start, with their new minimum wage and percentage increase.

• Alaska - $10.19 (3%)
• Arizona - $12 (9.1%)
• Arkansas - $10 (8.1%)
• California - $13 (8.3%)
• Colorado - $12 (8.1%)
• Florida - $8.56 (1.2%)
• Illinois - $9.25 (12%)
• Maine - $12 (9.1%)
• Maryland - $11 (8.9%)
• Massachusetts - $12.75 (6.3%)
• Michigan - $9.65 (2.1%)
• Minnesota - $10 (1.4%)
• Missouri - $9.45 (9.9%)
• Montana - $8.65 (1.8%)
• New Jersey - $11 (10%)
• New Mexico - $9 (20%)
• New York - $11.80 (6.3%)
• Ohio - $8.70 (1.8%)
• South Dakota - $9.30 (2.2%)
• Vermont - $10.96 (1.7%)
• Washington - $13.50 (12.5%)

Could this be why people did better under Trump than they did Obama? Because Democrats passed minimum wage increases?

 

[Weatherman2020]

Could this be why people did better under Trump than they did Obama? Because Democrats passed minimum wage increases?

The real minimum wage is $0.