Advocates of low-wage workers are fighting back against calls by business groups to freeze Maryland’s scheduled minimum wage increase for at least two years.
Maryland’s minimum wage is currently at $11 an hour. Last year the General Assembly passed legislation which set in motion a 75 cent annual increase in the minimum wage until a $15 an hour ceiling is reached. The ceiling will come in Jan. 2025 for most businesses but for those with 14 employees or less it will come in July 2026. The legislation gives the Board of Public Works the power to temporarily suspend scheduled increases for up to one year under certain circumstances. It is unclear how a two-year suspension would work without changing the law.
“We believe that the minimum wage law that passed last year to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for most workers by 2025 is an important step in the right direction for those workers,” Christopher Meyer, a research analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Maryland Center on Economic Policy (MDCEP), said in a teleconference that was held on the video meeting site Zoom on Thursday.
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Yes, Most certainly. Lets spend every cent in the Md. Treasury so we don't have to speak of it ever again. Then the war starts. When there's no more handouts the same thugs you see on TV are going to try and take it away from the ordinary citizen. Their flawed thinking will lead to the same law abiding citizen to become a criminal for defending himself and family. Wether
ReplyDeletethey be republican or democrat the powers that be better wake the Hell up and realize thinking like this is going to cause a civil breakdown in the USA. When this happens all the Liberals will disappear because this debacle won't lend itself to concealment by the principles who voted for it.
What a bunch of losers in Md. and D.C.
After the inflation of everything after Covid and now the protest. That increase will only help people keep up with the costs. Everything has went up.
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DeleteSpecifically, the US Dollar was inflated.
So each one is now worth less.
So prices will inflate.
As Dr Paul explained for years:
It is the CURRENCY that gets inflated.
Prices follow the currency
Affirmative
ReplyDeleteDo dat mean an increase in EBT and SNAP too? How bout welfare checks?
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