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ensho

(11,957 posts) Thu Dec 29, 2011, 09:08 AM Dec 2011

Eight States Raise Minimum Wage for New Year

http://www.truth-out.org/eight-states-raise-minimum-wage-new-year/1325085353

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Congress' failure to act has left it up to the states. The eight that are raising their rates on New Year's Day include Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. Their rates will increase by 28 to 37 cents an hour to between $7.64 and $9.04. The National Employment Law Project (NELP) calculates that will bring nearly 1.4 million full-time minimum wage workers an extra $582 to $770 per year.

Another 400,000 will get raises as pay rates are adjusted upward to reflect new minimum wage rates. It's not just individual workers who will benefit from the raises. Like all low-wage workers, they must spend virtually every cent they earn, thus raising the overall demand for goods and services and the hiring of new employees to help provide them.

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good news

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Eight States Raise Minimum Wage for New Year (Original Post) ensho Dec 2011 OP

This is a month's rent for some people. Ilsa Dec 2011 #1

Of course my state isn't one of them. xmas74 Dec 2011 #2

xmas74 : Are you a fellow Idahoan? Vanje Dec 2011 #5

Missouri. xmas74 Dec 2011 #6

They go up in Ohio, the convenience store where I go to get coffee in the morning doc03 Dec 2011 #3

hmmm. Interesting. My company is based in Ohio. Granted my site is in PA but a couple sites Justice wanted Dec 2011 #4

Ilsa

(63,790 posts)

1. This is a month's rent for some people.

Reply to ensho (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 09:15 AM

Dec 2011

GOPers just don't see that it's a really big deal for minimum wage workers.

xmas74

(30,020 posts)

2. Of course my state isn't one of them.

Reply to ensho (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 10:32 AM

Dec 2011

Then again, my state recently reviewed a bill that wanted to completely remove all child labor laws. There's also quite a bit of fighting about finding ways to REDUCE the minimum wage.

Vanje

(9,766 posts)

5. xmas74 : Are you a fellow Idahoan?

Reply to xmas74 (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 06:06 PM

Dec 2011

Idaho would make workers pay employers, if it could.

xmas74

(30,020 posts)

6. Missouri.

Reply to Vanje (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 09:07 PM

Dec 2011

We had someone present a bill that would eliminate all the safety nets for child labor. They actually wanted the child labor laws revoked.

doc03

(38,799 posts)

3. They go up in Ohio, the convenience store where I go to get coffee in the morning

Reply to ensho (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 10:39 AM

Dec 2011

cut two employees hours from 32 to 20 next week to pay for it. The owner has to pay for his new Cadillac CTS you know.

On edit: If he could have Kasich would has stopped the raise I am sure.

Justice wanted

(2,657 posts)

4. hmmm. Interesting. My company is based in Ohio. Granted my site is in PA but a couple sites

Reply to ensho (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 06:04 PM

Dec 2011

are in a sense 20 minutes away and in Ohio so I have to wonder if they are going to raise the wages for the PA workers to keep them in the site they are at currently or allow them to transfer to get the high wage.

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