Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahha sorry ReTHUGs and other anti-minimum wage morons

[malaise]

Data shows that there is stronger job growth in all states that raised the minimum wage in January.
Now go Cheney yourselves and stop lying to the world. No words for Chris Crispy's state.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/07/03/3456393/minimum-wage-state-increase-employment/
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Think a higher minimum wage is a job killer? Think again: The states that raised their minimum wages on January 1 have seen higher employment growth since then than the states that kept theirs at the same rate.

The minimum wage went up in 13 states — Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington — either thanks to automatic increases in line with inflation or new legislation, as Ben Wolcott reports in his analysis at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The average change in employment for those states over the first five months of the year as compared with the last five of 2013 is .99 percent, while the average for all remaining states is .68 percent.

Digging deeper, all but one of those states are experiencing increases in employment, and nine of them have seen growth above the median rate.

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R..nt

[Hoppy]

2. The explanation for His Rotundity's state (NJ) is that the cost of living index was passed this year

No time for it to have effect.

[Stellar]

7. Their minimum wage, like Illinois is 8.25hr

But they do have plans to do better...not so for Illinois.

Starting in 2014, the minimum wage will be automatically adjusted each September and increases implemented each January, based on inflation as determined by the Consumer Price Index.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx

Although my son just found a job that will start him off at 10.10 and hr. I think that's an encouraging sign in Illinois.

[B Calm]

4. K&R

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Kicking for the graphic et. al.

[unionthug777]

6. hey !!! i know that city !!!

took me a couple of seconds....even worked in a few of those buildings.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Kewl!

[malaise]

8. Love that

[littlemissmartypants]

12. The use of photographic perspective

Really enhances the message.


Shine a light.

Love, Peace and Shelter. Lmsp

[flamingdem]

9. LOL!

Is that for real, too funny

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Overpass light brigade.

I love them.

[maced666]

10. Snip-The number of hours employees are working? That's a different story.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/04/econ-j04.html
US jobs report shows growth in part-time, low-wage work
As a result, wages have remained stagnant. The average hourly wage for private sector workers increased by just six cents last month, and has increased only 2 percent over the past 12 months, less than the rate of inflation.
In fact, a disproportionate number of jobs created during the economic “recovery” pay less than $13 per hour, according to a report issued earlier this year by the National Employment Law Project. While US businesses have on the whole added 1.85 million low-wage jobs over the past six years, they have eliminated 1.83 million medium-wage (paying between $13 and $20 per hour) and high-wage (between $20 and $32) jobs, according to the report.



-a shift in the labor market, with employers increasingly using part-time and temporary workers to handle short-term projects. "Companies view labor more as inventory that is to be hired when they need it and let go when they don't need it."
-a sharp rise in the number of part-time workers who prefer full-time jobs. The total jumped by 275,000 to 7.5 million, the Labor Department said.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/07/06/part-time-workers/12185871/