The SeaTac initiative will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for hospitality and transportation workers in and near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The current minimum wage in Washington State is $9.19.
With all precincts counted, the 'Yes' vote was leading by 54% to 46%, but opponents say it is still too close to call. There are still uncounted votes, due to Washington's mail-in voting system.
9 comments:
bye, bye businesses. now they will have to deal with no jobs...clueless citizens don't know how businesses operates.
yes we do.
the clueless ones dont, government intervention distorts the market, in doing so, unintended consequences are automatic. you think, that if city of salisbury raised the minimum wage, that your grocery bill would stay the same with your minimum wage salary? NOPE. so the rest of us would go to fruitland or delmar to buy groceries, and your mcdonalds would shut down, and so would the salisbury foodlions, no job for your or for them. . . duh
i would just close business and move elsewhere... screw them
empty vendors at the airport--that will show them
that's not entirely true. we have raised the minimum wage before with no dire consequences or mass closings.
the whole chicken little, the sky is falling, propaganda is false and promoted by corporations because they don't want to lose precious profits.
we are paying it either way, increased wages, increased prices, or increased taxes to subsidize their substandard wages.
McDonalds shut down, get real, a wage increase are pennies to them.
Keep drinking the koolaid......
Food lion is an awful place to work. They pay nothing and you are labeled as part time even if you end up working full time hours. Their employment practices only add to the economic problem we all face locally.
You guys must be some super dooper scholars. Last I checked, the jury was still out on the impact of raising min. wage. Most peer reviewed studies point to either a small dent on employment or a significant benefit to workers. The final conclusion is far from a slam dunk. But I guess when you are a partisan ideologue, you really don't need facts to back up your point.
5:13
You didn't site any facts either, so what was the point of your comment?
So here's some facts for you....
The minimum wage has been increased 29 (TWENTY NINE!!!) times since 1938
I think there should be sufficient data to form a conclusion on its effectiveness.
Such as :
Opponents of raising the minimum wage argue that increasing the minimum wage would result in higher unemployment because it would cost more to hire employees.
This argument is weak because a study conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago showed that as a result of Chicago increasing their minimum wage by $1, consumer spending increased as well.
In addition, a study from the Economic Policy Institute shows that CEOs get paid 273 (TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE) times the pay of their average worker. This statistic clearly shows that the companies can afford a pay increase due to the disparity between CEO salaries and worker salaries.
Raising it would help bring families out of poverty. A worker who spends their day working full time but is paid minimum wage is not able to support their family.
What you got???
5:13
Here's a few facts for you.
For many working Americans an increase in the minimum wage will make the difference between living in poverty and not.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3.66 million workers paid by the hour earn at or below the minimum wage. An increase in this living wage is a strong response to the stagnant incomes that many of these workers face.
Contrary to popular opinion, the average worker affected by an increase in the minimum wage is not just a teenager flipping hamburgers. Only one in fourteen is a teenage student from a family with above average earnings.
The fact is, almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers are adults, and four in ten are the sole bread winner of their family.
Twenty percent of those living on the minimum wage were in poverty, and an additional 13% were near poverty
The American public supports increasing the minimum wage by a solid margin. Nearly every survey finds overwhelming support for raising the minimum wage.
I don't see where you stated anything other than your opinion, where are your facts?
Post a Comment