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2016-01-02 Economy
New year brings minimum wage hikes for Americans in 14 states
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Posted by Fred 2016-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Rise in unemployment claims and business closings coming in 2016 as well.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-01-02 00:25||   2016-01-02 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The boil is slow enough that no frogs will even make the association to the smell of chicken noodle soup in their hot tub.
Posted by Super Hose 2016-01-02 00:42||   2016-01-02 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 We used to be able to say that burgers can't flip themselves. That will change now.
Posted by gorb 2016-01-02 00:54||   2016-01-02 00:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Aren't the Liberals the ones who made it too expensive to live in the first place?
Posted by Newc 2016-01-02 01:32||   2016-01-02 01:32|| Front Page Top

#5 This is all BS to give union members a stealth wage hike.

Almost all union contracts do not indicate the wage level as a stand alone figure. The wage is determined by minimum + some number. So when minimum gets raised so does the pay rate of any union employees under this type of contract.

This was never about "living wages" but about typical Union thug behavior.
Posted by no mo uro 2016-01-02 05:15||   2016-01-02 05:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Not certain of that No Mo, you hear it a lot tho.
Posted by Shipman 2016-01-02 06:55||   2016-01-02 06:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Rise in unemployment claims and business closings coming in 2016 as well.

Two for one. More unemployed & more illegals---all voting the right way.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-02 08:05||   2016-01-02 08:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Increasing the minimum wage is an inefficient way to reduce poverty, according to a Fed research paper that comes amid a national clamor to hike pay for workers at the low end of the salary scale.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-01-02 09:22||   2016-01-02 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Ship, I think no mo uro is referring to the fact that many union contracts have automatic escalators tied to the minimum wage. Those are much more expensive, in aggregate, than the min-wage.
Posted by AlanC 2016-01-02 09:50||   2016-01-02 09:50|| Front Page Top

#10 grom, maybe we can start calling that GOLO, Get One Lose One. Just a thought.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-01-02 11:41||   2016-01-02 11:41|| Front Page Top

#11 The minimum wage has been, is now, and will remain zero.
Posted by Matt 2016-01-02 12:17||   2016-01-02 12:17|| Front Page Top

#12 The REAL minimum wage is whatever people on welfare get.

What the government pays people not to work.
Posted by no mo uro 2016-01-02 12:41||   2016-01-02 12:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Yep. About $45,000 if you count health insurance, rent subsidies, food stamps, unemployment, energy assistance, . . . .
Posted by gorb 2016-01-02 12:50||   2016-01-02 12:50|| Front Page Top

#14 And that doesn't include any 'side income' from dealing drugs, stealing aquisition and selling of property, etc...
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-01-02 12:54||   2016-01-02 12:54|| Front Page Top

#15 In a way this is a good thing. Low skill workers will be too expensive. They'll be replaced with robots who will do a better job.
Posted by Iblis 2016-01-02 16:55||   2016-01-02 16:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Anyone who wants to make a living flipping burgers is a hopeless looser.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-01-02 18:15||   2016-01-02 18:15|| Front Page Top

#17 Not certain of that either AlanC. Maybe tho. Again, it's bandied about a lot so there may be something to it, but I've never seen a contract with a minimum wage base multiplier.
But who knows?
Posted by Shipman 2016-01-02 18:20||   2016-01-02 18:20|| Front Page Top

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