Low - Income workers: Raising the Minimum wage ruined our lives

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According to liberals so what if small mom and pop business close....

Low-Income Workers: Raising The Minimum Wage Ruined Our Lives


“I got my son back because I worked here. It kept me out of trouble and on the right path,” Stacey Osborn said.

Osborn lives in Hillsdale, a small town in rural Michigan. She used to work at Tastes of Life, a local restaurant that supported a residential program, Life Challenge of Michigan. It provided training in social, developmental, waitressing, and cooking skills to people who needed help getting on their feet. Some employees had cancer, experienced deaths in the family, spent time in jail, or struggled with substance abuse.

That is, until Michigan’s legislature hiked the mandatory minimum wage.

Life After a Minimum-Wage Hike: ‘It Hurts So Bad’

Osborn was with Tastes of Life from day one—Father’s Day of 2012—until the restaurant closed on September 28 because of the minimum wage hike. She said she came to the restaurant with a lot of problems that the owners, Pastor Jack Mosley and his wife, Linda, helped her through.

“I could go to them for anything,” Osborn said. “It hurts so bad that it closed.”

Instead of working for a warm family restaurant, Osborn has found offers to bartend late at night. She doesn’t want to work someplace that will send her in the wrong direction. Mosley explained that, unlike a typical business that might fire a chef with a hot temper “who breaks dishes,” Tastes of Life managers were more long-suffering and wanted to help employees polish their life skills.

“Life has issues,” Mosley said. “This was a place to shore them up, and help them cope and get through.”

Osborn said she has looked for other jobs, but nothing compares to what Tastes of Life was to her. Instead of working for a warm family restaurant, Osborn has found offers to bartend late at night. She doesn’t want to work someplace that will send her in the wrong direction.

Conservatives spend hours complaining about the minimum-wage hike in theoretical terms, but rarely sit down and look at tangible examples of their ideas. But in Hillsdale, Michigan—population 8,207—mom and pop businesses are making cuts, raising prices, and closing shop because of the 75-cent-per-hour increase.

Unions Hold Low-Income Workers Hostage

Michigan unions threatened they’d sponsor a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. To keep the question off the ballot, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a compromise. Before September 1, 2014, the minimum wage in Michigan for regular employees was $7.40 and for tipped workers was $2.65. The new law raised the wage to $8.15 and $3.10, respectively. It will increase incrementally until 2018, when it will be $9.25 and $3.52.


“I did the math and realized I would need 200 more customers a week to stay open,” Mosley said.

That, accompanied by the fact that many of their customers go south for the winter and food prices have risen dramatically, forced Mosley to close doors. Twelve people lost their jobs.


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[SwimExpert]

According to liberals so what if small mom and pop business close....

Low-Income Workers: Raising The Minimum Wage Ruined Our Lives


“I got my son back because I worked here. It kept me out of trouble and on the right path,” Stacey Osborn said.

Osborn lives in Hillsdale, a small town in rural Michigan. She used to work at Tastes of Life, a local restaurant that supported a residential program, Life Challenge of Michigan. It provided training in social, developmental, waitressing, and cooking skills to people who needed help getting on their feet. Some employees had cancer, experienced deaths in the family, spent time in jail, or struggled with substance abuse.

That is, until Michigan’s legislature hiked the mandatory minimum wage.

Life After a Minimum-Wage Hike: ‘It Hurts So Bad’

Osborn was with Tastes of Life from day one—Father’s Day of 2012—until the restaurant closed on September 28 because of the minimum wage hike. She said she came to the restaurant with a lot of problems that the owners, Pastor Jack Mosley and his wife, Linda, helped her through.

“I could go to them for anything,” Osborn said. “It hurts so bad that it closed.”

Instead of working for a warm family restaurant, Osborn has found offers to bartend late at night. She doesn’t want to work someplace that will send her in the wrong direction. Mosley explained that, unlike a typical business that might fire a chef with a hot temper “who breaks dishes,” Tastes of Life managers were more long-suffering and wanted to help employees polish their life skills.

“Life has issues,” Mosley said. “This was a place to shore them up, and help them cope and get through.”

Osborn said she has looked for other jobs, but nothing compares to what Tastes of Life was to her. Instead of working for a warm family restaurant, Osborn has found offers to bartend late at night. She doesn’t want to work someplace that will send her in the wrong direction.

Conservatives spend hours complaining about the minimum-wage hike in theoretical terms, but rarely sit down and look at tangible examples of their ideas. But in Hillsdale, Michigan—population 8,207—mom and pop businesses are making cuts, raising prices, and closing shop because of the 75-cent-per-hour increase.

Unions Hold Low-Income Workers Hostage

Michigan unions threatened they’d sponsor a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. To keep the question off the ballot, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a compromise. Before September 1, 2014, the minimum wage in Michigan for regular employees was $7.40 and for tipped workers was $2.65. The new law raised the wage to $8.15 and $3.10, respectively. It will increase incrementally until 2018, when it will be $9.25 and $3.52.


“I did the math and realized I would need 200 more customers a week to stay open,” Mosley said.

That, accompanied by the fact that many of their customers go south for the winter and food prices have risen dramatically, forced Mosley to close doors. Twelve people lost their jobs.


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The conservative position on this is that she ruined her own life by having a son she can't afford to care for, and only being worth a minimum wage job for all her life.

 

[1stRambo]

According to liberals so what if small mom and pop business close....

Low-Income Workers: Raising The Minimum Wage Ruined Our Lives


“I got my son back because I worked here. It kept me out of trouble and on the right path,” Stacey Osborn said.

Osborn lives in Hillsdale, a small town in rural Michigan. She used to work at Tastes of Life, a local restaurant that supported a residential program, Life Challenge of Michigan. It provided training in social, developmental, waitressing, and cooking skills to people who needed help getting on their feet. Some employees had cancer, experienced deaths in the family, spent time in jail, or struggled with substance abuse.

That is, until Michigan’s legislature hiked the mandatory minimum wage.

Life After a Minimum-Wage Hike: ‘It Hurts So Bad’

Osborn was with Tastes of Life from day one—Father’s Day of 2012—until the restaurant closed on September 28 because of the minimum wage hike. She said she came to the restaurant with a lot of problems that the owners, Pastor Jack Mosley and his wife, Linda, helped her through.

“I could go to them for anything,” Osborn said. “It hurts so bad that it closed.”

Instead of working for a warm family restaurant, Osborn has found offers to bartend late at night. She doesn’t want to work someplace that will send her in the wrong direction. Mosley explained that, unlike a typical business that might fire a chef with a hot temper “who breaks dishes,” Tastes of Life managers were more long-suffering and wanted to help employees polish their life skills.

“Life has issues,” Mosley said. “This was a place to shore them up, and help them cope and get through.”

Osborn said she has looked for other jobs, but nothing compares to what Tastes of Life was to her. Instead of working for a warm family restaurant, Osborn has found offers to bartend late at night. She doesn’t want to work someplace that will send her in the wrong direction.

Conservatives spend hours complaining about the minimum-wage hike in theoretical terms, but rarely sit down and look at tangible examples of their ideas. But in Hillsdale, Michigan—population 8,207—mom and pop businesses are making cuts, raising prices, and closing shop because of the 75-cent-per-hour increase.

Unions Hold Low-Income Workers Hostage

Michigan unions threatened they’d sponsor a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. To keep the question off the ballot, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a compromise. Before September 1, 2014, the minimum wage in Michigan for regular employees was $7.40 and for tipped workers was $2.65. The new law raised the wage to $8.15 and $3.10, respectively. It will increase incrementally until 2018, when it will be $9.25 and $3.52.


“I did the math and realized I would need 200 more customers a week to stay open,” Mosley said.

That, accompanied by the fact that many of their customers go south for the winter and food prices have risen dramatically, forced Mosley to close doors. Twelve people lost their jobs.


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Yo, this is why you never VOTE "Socialist Democrats" in Office, PERIOD!

"GTP"

 

[Timmy]

How about the thousands of other places that managed to survive whole paying raises ?

Shit, if u can't afford to pay your staff $3 an hour you are in serious trouble .

 

[Fenton Lum]

It used to be called competition. Some of these folks can't tell the difference between the mom-n-pops and the Walmarts for example, whom the tax payers subsidize because Walmart won’t pay many a wage one can live on in and of itself in our wonderful nation of exceptionalism. Now if your attitude is fuck the lowlife Walmart scum workforce losers, fine, that’s just the kind of person you are. But that’s also why the “job creator” class wants “illegals” here. They’re a work force that’s easier to abuse, exploit, and underpay. Now if you think fuck illegals, they shouldn’t be here, or fuck ‘em, they get what they deserve, fine, that’s just the kind of person you are. And if you think any employer should be able to do whatever they want with an employee in terms of the employer/employee relationship and pay, fine, that’s just the kind of person you are, hope you find out for yourself someday what that relationship can become with no restrictions other than the beloved “bottom line”. And how a hominid may have to remain to survive and stave off homelessness. “Free market capitalism” is a religion in America with a fanatical following. The concept that we actually have that I mean. To question is to blaspheme. To subsidize human beings in any way for any amount of time is “communism”. To subsidize corporate power is “capitalism”.

Privatized gains versus socialized losses for the Wall Street Bankster class
Internalized profit versus externalized risk and expense for the “job creator” class
Socialism for the aristocracy versus laissez faire capitalism for the masses

That's our system.