Tag: minimum wage

So now that the Senate Democrats’ plan to include a $15 minimum wage in a COVID-19 relief bill has gone down in flames what’s their Plan B? Democrats’ $15 minimum wage increase isn’t going to survive the Senate. And they don’t have a Plan B yet. The Senate parliamentarian’s decision…

As the United States has struggled with lock downs, stay at home orders, and other socially and economically disruptive actions taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus…decisions were made about who is/isn’t an essential worker in an essential business. Obviously health care workers are essential, as are police and…

Just after the Wisconsin Assembly shut down for the spring, 30 Democrats put forward a bill to raise Wisconsin’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. The current minimum wage is set to the federal minimum wage of $7.25. A minimum that hasn’t changed since 2009 despite the fact obvious to…

As part of the 2019 – 2021 budget, apparently the minimum wage for state employees could move to $15 per hour. The budget left that open for final negotiations on the subject to the Evers administration and a legislative committee. So apparently the Evers plan was presented yesterday…we’ll see how…

As we have seen all along…President Trump’s tariff driven trade war is creating havoc around the country. Small businesses are paying higher costs for essential raw supplies. Farmers have lost overseas markets for their agricultural products and are going out of business in record numbers. Consumers will start seeing price…

Watch as Milwaukee’s millionaire County Executive Chris Abele explains how great a $7.25 per hour minimum wage is. Now I can’t say for certain, but I’m guessing that as the son of a billionaire Chris Abele has probably never had to work any job for a wage even remotely close…

Watch as decorated combat veteran Derrell Odom explains why it’s time for a $15 per hour minimum wage.

Yesterday former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, one of the Democratic presidential candidates, said he supports a $15 an hour national minimum wage. “I strongly support the national movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, because it will lift millions of families out of poverty and create better…

During an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News after he announced his presidential candidacy, Gov. Scott Walker called the minimum wage a “lame idea”, because apparently he wants workers to toil for pennies. “The left claims that they’re for American workers and they’ve just got just really lame ideas…

I’m just going to leave this right here for you all to ponder and discuss.