WASHINGTON — The D.C. Council has approved a $15-an-hour minimum wage bill.
Mayor Muriel Bowser has promised to sign the measure, which will raise the wage by 2020. In a ceremonial news conference, the mayor and council announced they have come to an agreement on a $15 wage. The council will vote this afternoon.
The council formally voted on the bill Tuesday afternoon.
Minimum wage workers in the District currently make $10.50. That rate will increase to $11.50 in July under legislation signed in 2014 by Bowser’s predecessor, Vincent Gray.
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10 comments:
I don't think most min. wage earners realize
that ----prices for everything else will be
going up due to this increase & they'll be in
" the same boat " they were in before they
got the raise.
I don't think the politicians realize that....Anything t get re-elected..
10:01-They believe the lag time adjustment will take years,or that nothing else will change via consumer price adjustments.I don't know about anyone else,but I personally dislike kiosks.
A report yesterday said more than 50% of DC small businesses have laid off employees or severely reduced hours because of the last increase.
Increases nationally have accelerated the development and implementation of automation especially in the fast food businesses.
Good luck to those who have chosen a minimum wage career.
Most minimum wage earners still live with parents and are in high school. Minimum wage is were you start work. You have no skills and no experience. As you gain experience and skills your pay goes up. No way hamburger flippers deserve to make $15.00 an hour. I was in my forties with three kids and a wife to support before I made $15,00 an hour. You will see prices rise and number of employees hired go down to compensate for this stupid move.
12:47 those statistics are a lie. There are many head of household wage earners working for minimum wage.
Your story is BS and relative to the time frame. If it was 1980 I am sure you were not making $15, and neither in the 1990's But then $10/hr back then is equal to $15/hr now.
Did you have a point or were you just telling stories and spreading misinformation?
1:50 The misinformation being spread is by you. The minimum wage was $3.35 from 1981-1989,$4.25 from 1991-1995,and $5.15 from 1998-2006. So if you double the 1989 minimum of $3.35 then minimum wage would be $5.03 rounded up instead of $7.25.(*)
Every one of those increases saw increases in unemployment and automation (1985 burgers were cooked on a flattop not a conveyor) especially among black teenagers. If you follow black teenage unemployment through all these increases you'll see how an entire generation has been deprived of entry level, low skill jobs where those youths could gain skills, self-confidence and advancement. All robbed by "make 'em feel good" politicians and bleeding hearts.
As this $15/hour push increases it will only get significantly worse.
(*) Source US Department of Labor
Well at $15 dollars and hour that may take some of them off welfare. How long before they change the criteria for that so that they can keep collecting that as well.
4:29 PM - you clearly like to lie and storytell, because I never said ANYTHING about minimum wage back in the 80's and 90's.
Try reading a little slower this time. Maybe you will get it then.
You do realize, don't you, that when companies like Walmart pay a non-living wage, we the taxpayers end up subsidizing those low wages by providing welfare for Walmart employees? But you're probably ok with that because it is effectively a transfer of wealth to big business, and Republican politicians have somehow convinced us that welfare for corporations is a fine thing, while welfare for our fellow citizens is a bad thing.
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