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Minnesota Legislative notebook: Representatives hear that minimum wage increase would help economy
February 26, 2013 at 2:27 am in DL-Online
Minnesota minimum wages would rise from $6.15 to as much as $10.55 an hour under bills lawmakers are examining this week. Continue Reading
What happens with the people who are incapable of providing the increased value to their employer?
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Considering the exponential increase in the income disparity between the highest and lowest paid workers since the inception of the federal minimum wage, your comment is an epic non sequitur.
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You jack it up to 10.00, it just means fewer high school students get jobs. Anyone depending of the minimum wage to support a family, should never have started a family.
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Douglas Hall has never met a minimum wage increase proposal that he didn’t like.
While his stack of charts and bar graphs show his heart might be in the right place by advocating for families/women/etc., the issue that requires addressing is the idea that a minimum wage job ought to be settled for, (by people that shouldn’t be settling for it), in the first place.
Mr. Hall, do your charts and graphs indicate what current minimum wage earners would be inclined to do if folks like yourself lobby successfully for large increases IN the minimum wage? Would those affected by such an increase be more likely or less likely to seek to better their situation and not have to settle for the minimum wage positions as a “career” in the first place?
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