The House just passed a $15 minimum wage. It would be the first increase in a decade.

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Passage of the bill is a victory for fast-food workers, who have been pushing for a $15 minimum wage across the country for more than five years.

“It’s long overdue. It’s what we really need and what we really deserve,” Bettie Douglas, a McDonald’s worker from St. Louis, Missouri, told Vox shortly before the vote. Douglas, who is 61, has been working at the fast-food chain for 13 years, earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 nearly the entire time.

The Raise the Wage Act would have a huge impact on working families like Douglas’s. The bill is expected to boost pay for 27 million US workers, lifting 1.3 million households out of poverty, according to an analysis released earlier this month by congressional economists.

But the income boost may come with a cost. The Congressional Budget Office says it could trigger 1.3 million job losses for low-paid workers like Douglas. Most recent academic research suggests that’s unlikely and would lead to few — if any — lost jobs.

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/18/20697509/minimum-wage-bill-raise-the-wage-act
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
Geez 13 years at minimum wage? Either she is a really bad worker or the guy who runs that McDonalds is sorely lacking in rewarding his help.
 

transporter

Well-Known Member
Just to point out what should be stunningly obvious:

1. This is just a political stunt. It has no hope of passing the Senate.

2. There was another report out the other day...those lost jobs generally come at poorly run businesses...min wage increases have little to no impact on well run businesses.

3. Having a national minimum wage established in this fashion is dumb. The cost of living in a Midwest corn town is vastly different than the cost of living in a major metropolitan area
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Just to point out what should be stunningly obvious:

Ah Huh ... ALWAYS ONLY Obvious to YOU [you condescending **** munch] You alone are the smartest all seeing Prophet of Finance


2) For some claiming to be SOOO SMART ..... most ANY Small Business can little afford a 30 - 50 % increase in costs not with standing your dig about them being poorly run .... wtf would YOU know college boy about running a business .... doubling the cost of labor is huge for Small Business ... we are NOT talking about the local Starbucks or McDonalds

I'll tag ...

@frequentflier

to see if she would like to offer her .02

3) Well Damn ... something I can agree with .. I'd better by a Lottery Ticket
 

Kyle

ULTRA-F###ING-MAGA!
PREMO Member
Ah Huh ... ALWAYS ONLY Obvious to YOU [you condescending **** munch] You alone are the smartest all seeing Prophet of Finance

:nono: You can't go promising Chrissy-0s title to someone else.
 
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