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Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage
An anonymous reader writes "The Seattle City Council announced on Monday that it has unanimously approved a $15 per hour minimum wage mandate. The new rate will go into effect starting April 1, 2015 in a tiered, gradual manner that depends on employer size. In the first year of implementation, hourly minimum wage will be raised to either $10 or $11 according to the employer size category. By 2021, hourly minimum wage across the board should be at or above $15. Seattle is the first city to implement a living wage for its lowest earners."
At least the machines will get your order right.
If it works at $15 why wouldn't it work at $100?
Of course, it doesn't work at $15, or any other price. Sure, it helps those who manage to keep their jobs, but everyone else... well... http://reason.com/blog/2014/05...
Thank you, gullible tool, for helping us propagate the message that earning a living wage is bad for workers.
Your friends,
The One Percent
Perhap's they can get new job's selling excess apostrophe's to people in apostrophe-poor countrie's. They seem to be plentiful around here.
Santa Fe has had a living wage since 2003, presently at $10.66. San Francisco implemented a living wage shortly thereafter, presently at $10.74. I'm sure there are others at this point.
The fact that you think that $10.74 is a living wage in San Francisco is laughable at best.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You liberal hippies and your math are what is wrong with America these days.
I have learned to trust that lowering costs for the rich will benefit me and my trailer-dwelling family far more than increasing our wages.