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I've been looking for a new job here recently and was comparing wage offers and I came across this article. I was shocked to say the least and wondered what other states are going through this? Here is a portion of the article. The rest can be found at
http://ga4.org/interfaithcenter/alert-description.html?alert_id=3474803 "The Virginia Fare Wage Act"
Raise Virginia's Minimum Wage Raising the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour would benefit more than 150,000 workers in Virginia. Minimum wage employees in Virginia who work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, earn $10,700 a year, $5,400 below the poverty line for a family of three. Ten percent of Virginians are in poverty today - 740,000 people or 163,000 more than when President Bush first took office. The low level of the minimum wage is a key part of the problem. A worker in Virginia earning minimum wage must work 125 hours per week to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment. That would require working nearly 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. In fact, the current minimum wage does not provide enough income to enable minimum wage workers to afford adequate housing in any area of this country. It is a myth that increasing the minimum wage causes unemployment. In the four years after the 1997 minimum wage increase, Virginia experienced great economic growth. Nearly 265,000 new jobs were created. Unemployment dropped from 4.1 percent in 1997 to 2.4 percent in 2000. An increase in the federal minimum wage to $7.25 would help lift tens of thousands of hardworking Virginia out of poverty and toward more secure and more productive lives. No one who works full time should have to live in poverty. Virginia did finally pass a law to increase the minimum wage to $7.25, but that won't take effect until July 24, 2009. And now with the increase of gas and food prices, I'm wondering if that is going to help much. I also found out that even though Virginia is one of the lowest minimum wage states in the country, there are other states that don't even have a minimum wage law. So does that mean they can pay you as little as they want? I lived in New York for a short time and a reporter did an article that stated people who live in NYC needed to make at least $18.00 an hour in order to just make ends meet. The average person in NYC was making only $11.00 an hour. And I wondered why there are so many Americans that have to go on government assistance. Now I know. |
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Increasing min wage is a bitter sweet proposition .. Prices just increase so are we really increasing peoples take home pay? And then some increases just bump you into another tax bracket causing your take home pay to be less then what it was .. just mho
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another drink to the politicians....
 we're screwed again.................
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Increasing min wage is a bitter sweet proposition .. Prices just increase so are we really increasing peoples take home pay? And then some increases just bump you into another tax bracket causing your take home pay to be less then what it was .. just mho |
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Yea, this is one of the many problems why the poor cannot get ahead and the middle class suffers.
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Edited by
drumguy10
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Wed 05/14/08 09:42 AM
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Not to mention the fact that the small business owners that fall into this catagory will now have a much harder time staying in business..
The answer is not to increase minimum wage the answer is to educate people so they don't have to work these minimum wage jobs..Now there will always be people who have to work these jobs, since of course these businesses would close without workers. Ok playing devils advocate here..say we increase minimum wage to say $10.00 an hour..Are you honestly gonna pay 6 -7 dollars for a quarter pounder with cheese? 10 dollars for a combo? Thats what I would take for Mcdonalds to pay that much..Or any other business like this.. Increasing minimum wage is not the answer..it will NEVER keep up with inflation, its a bandaid on a gaping wound..its quite simple if people want out of poverty bad enough they find a way out...there are many avenues to get training in this country and they are terribly under utilized. Trust me I have been a Restaurant Manager for 26 years and I know the dollars and cents of the business |
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Increasing min wage is a bitter sweet proposition .. Prices just increase so are we really increasing peoples take home pay? And then some increases just bump you into another tax bracket causing your take home pay to be less then what it was .. just mho Exactly what I think. |
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You know whats stupid. It don't matter how many times and what state your in. When ever the Minimum Wage goes up. So does everything else. So whats the point of it. Othere then to make the stupid people feel that there actually making some money
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