N.H. House kills minimum wage bill by one vote

[MaineDem]

CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire House on Thursday rejected a bill to raise the state´s minimum hourly wage, with the House speaker casting a rare vote to break a tie and kill the measure.

The vote was 173-172 to kill the bill to raise the hourly wage to $6 from the current $5.15, which is the same as the federal minimum wage. House Speaker Gene Chandler, a Republican, cast the deciding vote, without commenting.

Labor Commissioner James Casey had supported raising the minimum, saying it was long overdue. The last increase took effect in 1997.

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D818EAF00-70.shtml

Live free or die. :eyes:

[displacedtexan]

1. How pathetic!

I hope NH folks are mad enough to vote those bloodsuckers out of office!

[TheBlob]

2. !

:grr:
:mad:
:nuke:

[bluedeminredstate]

3. As a born and bred NH'er

with family still there, I don't know WTF is going on with the people who are being taxed out of their homes and home towns and yet elect the most anti-tax group of wingnuts to the Legislature. Now they can't even make more money to pay their outrageous RE taxes and the other sneaky ways they get you without "taxing" you at the state level. Booze and RE taxes are the only thing keeping NH afloat.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Not braggin, but Canada just raised it's minimum wage

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Minimum wage is a Federal decision, not Provincial

We went from 6.85 to 7.15 this month

Works out to about an extra 35$ a month

woopie anyways eh ? :shrug: