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Raising the minimum wage (Original Post)
eridani
Mar 2014
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eridani
(51,907 posts)1. Public hearing 3/5 in SEattle
Wednesday, March 5th
6:00 - 10:00 pm
Public Hearing on Minimum Wage
and Income Equality
Seattle City Council &
Mayor's Income Inequality Advisory Committee
Town Hall - 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle
* Sign-in to provide testimony starts at 5:00 pm *
eridani
(51,907 posts)2. March for $15/hr minimum wage; Seattle 3/15
Saturday, March 15th
1:00 - 4:00 pm
March for $15
Judkins Park - 2150 S Norman St, Seattle
* Sponsored by 15now.org,
endorsed by MLK County Labor Council *
eridani
(51,907 posts)3. What CBO Report? The State With The Highest Minimum Wage Is Adding Jobs
http://ourfuture.org/20140305/what-cbo-report-the-state-with-the-highest-minimum-wage-is-adding-jobs
If you thought that the hotly contested Congressional Budget Office report, suggesting that a higher minimum wage would reduce the number of jobs, would squelch any chance of raising it, think again.
President Obama ratcheted up the pressure today, speaking out in favor of a $10.10 federal minimum wage at a Connecticut rally with four New England Democratic governors who are pledging to push for the same in their respective states.
And he now has a silver bullet to debunk those conservatives using the report, which only offered an estimated range of possibilities, as proof that raising the minimum wage is a certain job-killer.
Washington State.
The home of the Super Bowl champions is also Americas minimum wage champion, with the highest state minimum wage of $9.32. The minimum is also indexed to inflation, so it will never lose purchasing power.
Today Bloomberg checked in on how the Evergreen States wage policy has impacted job growth and found that Washington State job growth beats the national average:
job growth continued at an average 0.8 percent annual pace, 0.3 percentage point above the national rate. Payrolls at Washingtons restaurants and bars, portrayed as particularly vulnerable to higher wage costs, expanded by 21 percent. Poverty has trailed the U.S. level for at least seven years.
Bloomberg noted that even if conservatives have a point that higher minimum wages have some negative impact on job growth, Washingtons example shows that any such effects arent big enough to throw its economy and labor market off the tracks.
While the CBO did project a slight reduction in jobs, it also projected that 16.5 million Americans would have higher incomes with a $10.10 minimum wage, including and beyond those directly earning the minimum. (With a $9 minimum, 7.6 million would earn more.)
Considering the Washington State banked those bigger payrolls without experiencing any net job loss, it seems pretty short-sighted to pass on raising the minimum just because of a flimsy projection of minor job losses that isnt backed up by real world experience.
Republicans who think they can resist the drive for a higher minimum wage by waving the CBO report havent noticed that a higher minimum still polls phenomenally even after the reports release.
Common sense and real-world experience will beat an academic paper
If you thought that the hotly contested Congressional Budget Office report, suggesting that a higher minimum wage would reduce the number of jobs, would squelch any chance of raising it, think again.
President Obama ratcheted up the pressure today, speaking out in favor of a $10.10 federal minimum wage at a Connecticut rally with four New England Democratic governors who are pledging to push for the same in their respective states.
And he now has a silver bullet to debunk those conservatives using the report, which only offered an estimated range of possibilities, as proof that raising the minimum wage is a certain job-killer.
Washington State.
The home of the Super Bowl champions is also Americas minimum wage champion, with the highest state minimum wage of $9.32. The minimum is also indexed to inflation, so it will never lose purchasing power.
Today Bloomberg checked in on how the Evergreen States wage policy has impacted job growth and found that Washington State job growth beats the national average:
job growth continued at an average 0.8 percent annual pace, 0.3 percentage point above the national rate. Payrolls at Washingtons restaurants and bars, portrayed as particularly vulnerable to higher wage costs, expanded by 21 percent. Poverty has trailed the U.S. level for at least seven years.
Bloomberg noted that even if conservatives have a point that higher minimum wages have some negative impact on job growth, Washingtons example shows that any such effects arent big enough to throw its economy and labor market off the tracks.
While the CBO did project a slight reduction in jobs, it also projected that 16.5 million Americans would have higher incomes with a $10.10 minimum wage, including and beyond those directly earning the minimum. (With a $9 minimum, 7.6 million would earn more.)
Considering the Washington State banked those bigger payrolls without experiencing any net job loss, it seems pretty short-sighted to pass on raising the minimum just because of a flimsy projection of minor job losses that isnt backed up by real world experience.
Republicans who think they can resist the drive for a higher minimum wage by waving the CBO report havent noticed that a higher minimum still polls phenomenally even after the reports release.
Common sense and real-world experience will beat an academic paper