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State Minimum Wage Bill
Posted on 2/25/14 at 7:20 am
Posted on 2/25/14 at 7:20 am
LA State Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb has prefiled a bill for the coming Legislative Session to increase the State minimum wage to $10/hr. I'll leave it up to your imagination which party she belongs to.
LA Dems are now starting to push the issue pretty hard and putting stuff out that made me curious to look up the roll call vote for the National minimum wage increase from 2007.
Members of our Congressional Delegation who voted YES to increase the National Minimum Wage to over $7/hr.: Rodney Alexander, Charlie Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Dollar Bill Jefferson, Vitter and Landrieu.
There's two names up there on the Yes list I did not expect to see.
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LA Dems are now starting to push the issue pretty hard and putting stuff out that made me curious to look up the roll call vote for the National minimum wage increase from 2007.
Members of our Congressional Delegation who voted YES to increase the National Minimum Wage to over $7/hr.: Rodney Alexander, Charlie Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Dollar Bill Jefferson, Vitter and Landrieu.
There's two names up there on the Yes list I did not expect to see.
LINK
This post was edited on 2/25/14 at 7:22 am
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Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:27 am to ragincajun03
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Rodney Alexander, Charlie Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Dollar Bill Jefferson, Vitter and Landrieu.
LOL good find!
That said, I don't find supporting an increase in the minimum wage to be scarlet letter to forever someone unclean.
I am OK with supporting an increase in the min wage when the economy is doing well, and wage inflation has increased sufficiently. That way you mitigate the downside by essentially ratifying a wage increase that the free market has already determined.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:37 am to ragincajun03
In absolute terms, wages have stagnated. The free market isn't compensating. Raising the minimum wage is an issue of critical importance and should be done, but it doesn't address the fundamental issues afflicting our consumer economy...i.e. the growing chasm between the middle class and the wealthiest Americans.
A lot of people here criticize raising the minimum wage, as if liberals or progressives think it's a panacea. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on.
A lot of people here criticize raising the minimum wage, as if liberals or progressives think it's a panacea. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 2:03 pm to ragincajun03
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Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Certifiable idiot
Posted on 2/25/14 at 3:33 pm to ragincajun03
Anybody that seriously advocates the minimum wage, I automatically know they're economically illiterate.
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