Yet the U.S. Chamber of Commerce partnered with these progressive groups and somehow expected Biden would not implement those groups’ radical wish list…
REPORT: $15 Minimum Wage Would Lift 900k ‘Out of Poverty,’ but Put 1.4 MILLION Out of Work…
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, as President Joe Biden has proposed, would cost 1.4 million jobs over the next four years while lifting 900,000 people out of poverty, according to a Congressional Budget Office report Monday…
BERNIE SANDERS: ‘It Was Never My Intention to Raise the Minimum Wage Immediately and During the Pandemic’…
Sanders among senators who unanimously passed Republican budget amendment to block $15 minimum wage in Covid stimulus package…
New York City’s $15 Minimum Wage Is Now Officially a Disaster…
New York City’s $15 minimum wage, which began to take effect Dec. 31, 2018, was meant to bolster earnings and quality of life, but for a lot of residents, it’s doing the opposite. Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation in 2016 to increase the New York York State’s minimum wage to $15.00/hr. The […]
Minimum Wage Hikes Trigger ‘Payroll Tsunami,’ as Small Businesses Cut Back…
Small business owners across the country are beginning to feel the pinch as more states move toward a $15 minimum wage. While proposals to raise pay are intended to help workers, several mom-and-pop coffee shops as well as restaurants are responding by cutting hours, eliminating jobs or closing down entirely because they can’t keep up […]
Whole Foods Reportedly Cuts Worker Hours to Make Up for its New $15-an-Hour Wage…
One of the most common arguments against raising the minimum wage, like cities such as Seattle and San Francisco have done recently, is that if businesses are forced to pay workers more per hour, they’ll simply cut the amount of shifts they offer workers to keep their costs the same. While this hasn’t happened in […]
Seattle’s Painful Lesson: How to Hurt Low-Wage Workers, Increase Minimum Wage to $15 Minimum Wage…
In the summer of 2014, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a bill increasing the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. “No city or state has gone this far. We go into uncharted territory,” said council member Sally Clark. The City of Seattle, to its credit, actually made some effort to chart the waters […]