Los Angeles $15 Minimum Wage

[arch stanton]

Nope can't afford it after buying their iPhone and directv.

Even the poorest of the poor shouldn't have to deal with the cable company.

[halobob]

$15 minimum wage is working out really well for Seattle so far...if you like fewer jobs and more people out of work:

 

http://www.aei.org/publication/early-evidence-suggests-that-seattles-radical-experiment-might-be-a-model-for-the-rest-of-the-nation-not-to-follow/

[Jay]

$15 minimum wage is working out really well for Seattle so far...if you like fewer jobs and more people out of work:

 

http://www.aei.org/publication/early-evidence-suggests-that-seattles-radical-experiment-might-be-a-model-for-the-rest-of-the-nation-not-to-follow/

 

on the plus side, productivity is up!

[Vegas Halo Fan]

In the meantime, the Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting increases in the minimum wage. I guess that they are concerned that someone might earn enough money to leave the state.

[Tank]

In the meantime, the Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting increases in the minimum wage. I guess that they are concerned that someone might earn enough money to leave the state.

 

"welcome to the hotel alabama."

[Vegas Halo Fan]

The dumbest person I know moved to Alabama and raised the states IQ. 

 

I suppose that as long as they don't tax saying "Roll, Tide" it's al good.

[ABC]

$15 minimum wage is working out really well for Seattle so far...if you like fewer jobs and more people out of work:

 

http://www.aei.org/publication/early-evidence-suggests-that-seattles-radical-experiment-might-be-a-model-for-the-rest-of-the-nation-not-to-follow/

 

I was in Seattle a few months ago and it is crazy expensive there. At night the streets are lined with homeless teens sleeping on the curb. 

[Amazing Larry]

$15 minimum wage is working out really well for Seattle so far...if you like fewer jobs and more people out of work:

 

http://www.aei.org/publication/early-evidence-suggests-that-seattles-radical-experiment-might-be-a-model-for-the-rest-of-the-nation-not-to-follow/

 

[halobob]

Doesn't look promising but let's give it more than 10 months. A loss in jobs is an expected market correction. 100% employment is worthless if everyone still mooches off the feds for penny under 30k/year. Bet Seattle workers are mooching off the feds less and easily offsetting the cost of unemployment.

 

I really don't get the argument for low/no minimum wage. Children in china are working for a buck an hour. Why do we want to voluntarily be big businesses !@#$%? I'd rather pay $2 for an orange

I feel there are a number of jobs that are meant for teenagers.  A person working the counter at McDonalds shouldn't be doing so as a career choice but should be a high school/college student earning some extra money.  Furthermore, the min wage workers are usually some of the worst workers.  This is why INO pays more than min wage and gets a much higher quality employee than that of Burger King.  Companies usually get what they pay for in terms of employees.  

[ten ocho recon scout]

^hookers vs escorts, so to speak.

Agreed. Im not at all against raising the minimum (no clue as to how much), but i hate the argument of liveable wage