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The Minimum Wage

Thu, Jan 11, 2007

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Minimum wage workers will get a pay raise (ABC News: House Passes Minimum Wage Increase), paltry ‘tho it is, from the newly powerful Democrats in Congress. The measure has House appproval and quick confirmation is expected in the Senate. However, to the working poor, most of whom are employed just below fulltime status and thus are denied benefits of any consequence and who, after a decade of federal inaction, will have to wait another 26 months for the entire increase to materialize, this rise in their wage is cold comfort and it conjures the image of millionaires handing a penny from tight fists. A few states haven’t waited for Congressional action. An informative and interactive map of the minimum wage in individual states can be found here.      

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6 Comments For This Post

  1. D-day Says:
    January 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    The trouble with raising the minimum wage is that by the time congress gets around to raising it, it’s already too little. There needs to be a set formula that raises the wage automatically with cost of living increases.
  2. Mirth Says:
    January 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    From your…uh…fingers to the god who watches over the poor.
    BWT: Could someone give him/her a nudge. He/She is slacking off.
  3. franktheliberal Says:
    January 11th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    I’ll call Pat. Our state has one of the highest minimum wages in the country,(about $7.65 I think) and despite the whining of the rich elite hasn’t had that much of a negative effect on doing business here. I have a friend whose daughter lives in Texas as a waitress and the minimum wage for them is 3 bucks plus tips that the owner gets a share of.I don’t care WHERE ya live or what the cost of living is, gas is STILL almost three bucks a gallon.
  4. thepoetryman Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 12:03 am

    I finally got a glitch worked out with my word press account! Sheesh…trying to *&##!@~^ comment and unable to do so was beginning to really tick me off. All’s good now. Peace my friend. The elite have a way of trying to paint the hardship being on them, but what they don’t see is the hardship of those that either work for them or fight against them. They do not see because they choose not to see, and if they do see then they choose to ignore it and excuse the depth of poverty… shame on each and everyone who do not see that a higher wage would increase productivity because it would increase the ability of the lower income earners to be fucking happy and content! (Sorry. The more I typed the madder I got. I best stop before I BREAK MY GODDAMNED KEYBOARD!)
  5. Mirth Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 11:19 am

    Nice to see you here, TPM, and very happy that you worked out the glitches.
    Once again we see things in the same way, this time the distain the Haves have for the HaveNots.
    Wherever we look is outrage.
  6. thepoetryman Says:
    January 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am

    It is sad that by the time the minimum wage kicks in the cost of living will have dwarfed the increase, paltry as it is…Then all they (we) need do is wait a nother five or ten years to see the same thing happen again…

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