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Horse patoot. Doesn't hurt anyone in the long run- only now while Pubs and their insurer pal can screw it up in their red states- and in their rural areas.AND indexed to inflation...so many dupes went along with Dems, despite all that Pubs had told them. The point of the OP..."Increasing The Minimum Wage
Four Republican-Controlled States VotedThis Week To Raise Minimum Wage. Four states controlled by Republican legislatures -- Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota -- voted in Tuesday's midterms to raise the state-mandated minimum wage. As Huffington Post reported:
Voters in four red states approved ballot initiatives to raise their state minimum wages on Tuesday, sending another message to Washington that Americans support a higher wage floor.
Binding minimum wage referendums were on the ballot in Arkansas, Nebraska, Alaska and South Dakota on Tuesday, with polls suggesting ahead of election day that all would pass.
Arkansas voters approved their initiative by a 65-to-35 margin, according to early returns. The measure will increase the minimum wage incrementally to $8.50 per hour by 2017. Nebraska voters, meanwhile, approved their initiative, which will raise the minimum wage to $9 by 2016, by a 62-to-38 margin.
Alaskans voted by a 69-to-31 margin to raise their minimum wage from $7.75 to $9.75 an hour by 2016, and then peg it to an inflation index so that it rises with the cost of living. South Dakota voted 55-45 to raise their minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 next year. It will also be indexed thereafter. [Huffington Post, 11/4/14]
Several GOP Candidates Campaigned On Increasing Minimum Wage.As Slate noted, several Republican gubernatorial and congressional candidates, such as Rick Snyder (R-MI), Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Charlie Baker (R-MA) endorsed increasing the minimum wage. [Slate, 11/5/14]
Seventy Percent Of Americans Support A Federal Minimum Wage Increase. According to a September poll from The New York Times and CBS News, 70 percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour. [The New York Times, 9/15/14]
Health Care Reform
Americans Broadly Support Key ACA Provisions. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll conducted earlier this year found that individual provisions of the Affordable Care Act enjoy widespread bipartisan support: 77 percent of Americans agree with eliminating out-of-pocket costs for preventive services, 79 percent favor closing the Medicare "doughnut hole," and 56 percent approve of increasing the Medicare payroll tax on upper income brackets:''
Voters in four red states approved ballot initiatives to raise their state minimum wages on Tuesday, sending another message to Washington that Americans support a higher wage floor.
8.50 an hour is not that big a deal franko
however it kind of shoots your mean ol selfish republicans claim
in the footz
every ones wages go up when the minimum wage goes up
Minimum wage hurts more people than it helps. Facts vs. Leftists. Round 29:
5 facts about the minimum wage Pew Research Center
same with Ocare- it hurts way more than it helps.