Keep in mind they do not include fuel or food as inflation. It really should be close to double what it is to be fair. This action is simply to create the delusion that the government gives a flying frack about you. They don't, they haven't in 40 years, and this act will not fly. What will fly is when WE do something, such as become self-sufficient in terms of food, produce our own goods, and exchange or give the results of our work to each other, separate from the corrupt and non-sovereign currency system in place.

Coincidental or did some site state 30 million workers for a reason listed below?

By last count, Numbersusa put the number of Illegals at 30 million.

No, I don't believe they deserve more than a deportation.

I work with 2 young people right now that earn minimum wage. They both have 2 jobs, one is also going to school to better herself. They will succeed in life because they don't whine and complain about their wage. Better minimum wage would be great but until that happens they deal with it.

The "generous elite" are not the ones who will struggle with it...it's the small businessmen and women who will push back on the increase because they may not be able to accommodate it (sans the $20 burgers.)

Even so, $10 an hour is not a living wage IMHO.

And that is another side of the issue...
Illegal should equal O-U-T.

you are missing the point ALLE, its not about CHILDREN who are still able to have their 'needs' being taken care of by parents

we are talking about those adults now having to resort to minimum wage to take care of THOSE kids,,,,,

I'm not talking about children either. These are young ADULTS just starting out in life. If those adults you are talking about can't make it on a minimum wage job, they should not be having children to support.

Valid point, alleoops, about not having kids you can't afford to support. I agree with you wholeheartedly. But it's a separate issue from what the minimum wage should be. Just like illegal immigration is a separate issue also. If we want to have a constructive debate, let's stick to the topic at hand.

And speaking of what goes on in Washington, the Nats just swept the Sox. Hoo-ahh! Well that happened in Boston actually, but you get the point.

With all the welfare extensions being handed out, the chronically unemployed don't need to look for work. Some places, unemployment extensions pays much better than a job.

I would imagine it's better here than in Mexico

I'd like to know where you got your information about new small businesses. In my (admittedly personal) experience, new businesses decide on their pay rates based on how highly skilled they need their employees to be.

It is your Government along with the Unions who gummed up the works!
And it won't get any better as long Labor can coerce anyone to pay Wages which are Utopian,thanks to Government Coercion!


http://mises.org/daily/5865/MinimumWage-Rates

The very essence of the interventionist politicians' wisdom is to raise the price of labor either by government decree or by violent action on the part of labor unions. To raise wage rates above the height at which the unhampered market would determine them is considered a postulate of the eternal laws of morality as well as indispensable from the economic point of view. Whoever dares to challenge this ethical and economic dogma is scorned both as depraved and ignorant. Many of our contemporaries look upon people who are foolhardy enough "to cross a picket line" as primitive tribesmen looked upon those who violated the precepts of taboo conceptions. Millions are jubilant if such scabs receive their well-deserved punishment from the hands of the strikers while the police, the public attorneys, and the penal courts preserve a lofty neutrality.

The market wage rate tends toward a height at which all those eager to earn wages get jobs and all those eager to employ workers can hire as many as they want. It tends toward the establishment of what is nowadays called full employment. Where there is neither government nor union interference with the labor market, there is only voluntary or catallactic unemployment. But as soon as external pressure and compulsion, be it on the part of the government or on the part of the unions, tries to fix wage rates at a higher point, institutional unemployment emerges. While there prevails on the unhampered labor market a tendency for catallactic unemployment to disappear, institutional unemployment cannot disappear as long as the government or the unions are successful in the enforcement of their fiat. If the minimum wage rate refers only to a part of the various occupations while other sectors of the labor market are left free, those losing their jobs on its account enter the free branches of business and increase the supply of labor in them. When unionism was restricted to skilled labor mainly, the wage rise achieved by the unions did not lead to institutional unemployment. It merely lowered the height of wage rates in those branches in which there were no efficient unions or no unions at all. The corollary of the rise in wages for organized workers was a drop in wages for unorganized workers. But with the spread of government interference with wages and with government support of unionism, conditions have changed. Institutional unemployment has become a chronic or permanent mass phenomenon.

Read on at the link


Workers who are worth it deserve good wages,but Union and Government Coercion actually achieve the opposite!

I mean non-skilled workers and small businesses that are usually mom and pop created business. The type that make up the most of the businesses that would pay a minimum wage. Very rarely would highly skilled workers earn minimum wage.

It's not. In fact, more are leaving than coming into the United States. We've finally alloweed our country to become a 3rd world country.

Accept this is only raising money for poor people that are not big spenders. They will not be putting more into the economy by much and rising costs could hurt small businesses.

The name of this post is misleading as it is not wages from the fore mentioned date. It is adjusted for inflation.
Also a high school kid at taco well won't be more efficient because he makes more money. I don't remember who was mentioning that but people don't become more efficient because their salary increases.

the lack of knowledge about the REALITY of welfare continues to astound me

a CONDITION of unemployment is that people be looking for work,,,,and just like people are required to pay taxes,, there are probably many who breach the requirement and dont get caught

that is a condition of follow up and execution of the laws/requirements,, not eradicating the taxes, unemployment, or welfare,,,

the economy doesnt work that way,, if money goes INTO The economy it doesnt segregate once its there ,, it has a widespread effect on consumers IN GENERAL,,,,the same thing happens when it leaves the economy

When was the last time you were unemployed? You do it online every week. It says "did you look for a job this week? " All you do is click yes. No one checks if you really looked for a job lol.

Ive been unemployed for three years now

In order to keep receiving Nevada unemployment benefits you have to meet ongoing job search requirements. Unemployment benefits are meant to be a temporary benefit until you find a new job, so these job search requirements are in place to make sure you are actively looking for a new job.

Nevada Job Search Requirements are:
1. You must be actively be looking for a job.
2. YOu must make at least 2 job contacts per week. Job contacts include filling out job applications and sending resumes.
3. You must keep a record of all of your job search activities, including a record of all job contacts.
4. You must not be disabled. If you are disabled there are different programs available to help you and your unemployment counselor or local unemployment office can direct you to those resources. (These resources include Social Security Disability).

You must fulfill these job search requirements every week, and provide a weekly certification to let the unemployment office that you are meeting all of the requirements. Be sure to have your job search record up to date, as you may be called into the unemployment office for a periodic eligibility review.

I have never been unemployed for more than a few months at time.
In a city like Reno, I would imagine it would not be difficult finding a job flippin' burgers or cleaning Motel rooms.

Unless, Unemployment Welfare pays more.