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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 16:35:24 GMT
Voting matters. Every time. www.inc.com/business-insider/st-louis-minimum-wage-missouri-10-to-7-kill-jobs-take-money-out-peoples-pocket-eric-greitens.html"St. Louis' minimum wage has reverted to $7.70 after a brief increase to $10, due to opposition from Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. In July, Greitens announced that the increase would kill jobs.... Greitens's claim that raising the minimum wage would "kill jobs" is not supported by economic research. The National Employment Law Project released an exhaustive report in 2016 looking at every federal minimum wage hike since 1938. The investigators found that year-over-year employment increased 68% of the time after each wage hike. What's more, the industries most affected by minimum wage more often saw jumps in employment: 73% of the time in retail, and 82% in leisure and hospitality.... "If we're making $10 an hour, we're going to go right back out and spend that money," Wanda Roberts, a St. Louis minimum-wage work, told CBS News. With the reversal, she said she'd "go back to struggling."" So, it's up to voters. Do we want that money going to wages, which often go right back out into the community in the form of rent and dance lessons and clothes and sports fees....? Or do we want that money going to profits - which can go anywhere including to other countries' citizens in the shape of dividends to be spent on yachts in the Mediterranean, villas in the Caribbean, casinos in Macau, etc? I choose wages. |
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 31, 2017 16:54:40 GMT
150+ businesses in STL that are affected by this have decided to continue paying their employees the $10+ per
hour - they just called it a raise
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 16:56:53 GMT
I think you may appreciate this irony from the Missouri GOP ...
"1/3 Great job in Springfield, @potus! You are right—it’s time to give the American worker a pay raise!"
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 31, 2017 17:10:39 GMT
maybe they believe it should be the choice of a business owner?
left to their own devices 150+ made that decision
gina
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Post by Merge on Aug 31, 2017 17:39:02 GMT
maybe they believe it should be the choice of a business owner? left to their own devices 150+ made that decision gina maybe the american taxpayer shouldn't have to subsidize businesses that don't want to pay a living wage in the form of WIC, SNAP, ADC, etc. for their employees left to their own devices many businesses will screw over their workers and the american public to make more profit |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 17:52:54 GMT
maybe they believe it should be the choice of a business owner? left to their own devices 150+ made that decision gina maybe the american taxpayer shouldn't have to subsidize businesses that don't want to pay a living wage in the form of WIC, SNAP, ADC, etc. for their employees left to their own devices many businesses will screw over their workers and the american public to make more profit  |
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Post by pridemom on Aug 31, 2017 18:32:20 GMT
Missouri didn't lower the minimum wage, Missouri's minimum wage stayed the same. What they did was prevent cities from controlling wages by setting a higher minimum wage. This affects some of our bigger cities that had voted for a higher minimum wage like the city of St Louis.
Cities in Missouri can opt to have a higher minimum, but most towns, like mine, only added a small amount to the minimum wage, not wages of $10 or more.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 18:38:35 GMT
Can there be exceptions for non-profits and low-profits-to-wages-ratio companies? I think that would be worth considering/enacting.
Should we be continuing the accumulation of wealth that has 10% of the wealthiest in the US owning 76% of the wealth? No. I don't think so.
IMO Missouri is wrong to enact this legislation that lowers the minimum wage in parts of the state.
"The new law went into effect on Monday, which means roughly 35,000 people are seeing their wages fall."
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Post by #notLauren on Aug 31, 2017 18:43:07 GMT
maybe they believe it should be the choice of a business owner? left to their own devices 150+ made that decision gina maybe the american taxpayer shouldn't have to subsidize businesses that don't want to pay a living wage in the form of WIC, SNAP, ADC, etc. for their employees left to their own devices many businesses will screw over their workers and the american public to make more profit Maybe it isn't the obligation of a business owner who only needs unskilled, teenage labor to pay skilled labor rates. |
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Post by #notLauren on Aug 31, 2017 18:51:47 GMT
No, you're right. But some skilled labor does work for $12/hr. So an increase in minimum wage means an increase in many other wages as well.
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Post by PaperAngel on Aug 31, 2017 21:17:40 GMT
maybe they believe it should be the choice of a business owner? left to their own devices 150+ made that decision gina maybe the american taxpayer shouldn't have to subsidize businesses that don't want to pay a living wage in the form of WIC, SNAP, ADC, etc. for their employees left to their own devices many businesses will screw over their workers and the american public to make more profit I agree. After all, taxpayers already subsidize the non-living-wage-paying restaurant industry with customer tips (& via government assistance programs). I applaud the MO business owners who choose to continue paying the higher wage. |
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 31, 2017 23:41:42 GMT
MO Missouri is wrong to enact this legislation that lowers the minimum wage in parts of the state. it's not lowering the minimum wage minimum wage in missouri is $7.70 the city of stl decided to up THEIR minimum wage to $10 the governor said 'no go' - a city can not alter THEIR minimum wage - minimum wage stays the same across the state stl city raised theirs to $10 per hour and it went into affect in may - this legislation just brings it back in line with the rest of the state although...as noted MANY business owners are continuing to pay those employees $10/hour gina |
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Post by pridemom on Sept 1, 2017 0:17:41 GMT
Can there be exceptions for non-profits and low- profits-to-wages-ratio companies? I think that would be worth considering/enacting. Should we be continuing the accumulation of wealth that has 10% of the wealthiest in the US owning 76% of the wealth? No. I don't think so. IMO Missouri is wrong to enact this legislation that lowers the minimum wage in parts of the state. "The new law went into effect on Monday, which means roughly 35,000 people are seeing their wages fall." But Missouri didn't lower the minimum wage. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 0:36:38 GMT
Missouri enacted legislation that disallowed a higher minimum wage than the State's minimum (which is a common tactic right now for State Legislatures to override much more progressive city governments (see N. Carolina)). Therefore, they lowered the minimum wage that the people in St. Louis were supposed to have based on what the city enacted.
People, please vote in State Legislature elections. This is why that matters! Or the State Legislatures (that are easier for lobbyists to buy) will continue to do the bidding of the wealthiest.
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