With the governor and legislators pushing for an increase in Maryland’s state minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, advocates of people with disabilities want to make sure their paid caregivers get higher wages, since the state now only reimburses them at $9.82 an hour.
Thursday, these advocates came out to support legislation by Senate Finance Chairman Thomas Mac Middleton, D-Charles, that would guarantee those providers higher pay. His committee is also handling the bills to raise the statewide minimum wage.
Middleton’s bill, SB 890, dictates that caregivers of individuals with developmental and physical disabilities, as well as community mental health service providers, be paid an hourly rate 50% higher than state’s minimum wage. More
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instead of bailing out the car companies and the banks if they had simply given everyone a million dollars, the economy would be in great shape.
ReplyDeletehomes would have been bought, cars and other vehicles would be bought,and new businesses would be opened.
3:49-I agree,but I would have settled for just having my home and car payed off.
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