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District of Columbia approves $15/hour minimum wage (1 Viewer)

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The District of Columbia's city council approved a $15-an-hour minimum wage on Tuesday, a rate adopted by a growing number of U.S. cities and states seeking to battle income inequality.

The council voted unanimously to pass the measure boosting the minimum hourly wage to $15 by 2020, with subsequent hikes tied to inflation. A final vote will come later this month, and Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser has backed the bill.

Once approved, the U.S. capital will join California and New York in making $15 the hourly minimum. At least eight cities, including Seattle, have also approved the $15 base.

"Raising the minimum wage will help address the issues of residents being pushed out of the District due to rising costs of living and income inequality," Council member Vincent Orange, a sponsor of the bill, said in the hearing.
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Read more @: District of Columbia approves $15/hour minimum wage | Reuters

The nation's capital has raised its minimum wage to $15 over a period of 4 years! The first raise of $1 will come July 1. :applaud:applaud A step in the right direction for DC!
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: District of Columbia approves $15/hour minimum wage | Reuters

The nation's capital has raised its minimum wage to $15 over a period of 4 years! The first raise of $1 will come July 1. :applaud:applaud A step in the right direction for DC!
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I strongly support this. Good on them. I think they should raise it again - to $20, $25, $40 dollars an hour. We shouldn't let people slip into poverty. Since labor is immune to the laws of supply and demand, and economic reality is suspendable when we really super-duper want it to be, we can raise the price of low-value-added labor without reducing demand for it ad nauseum. :)
 
cpwill said:
I strongly support this. Good on them. I think they should raise it again - to $20, $25, $40 dollars an hour. We shouldn't let people slip into poverty. Since labor is immune to the laws of supply and demand, and economic reality is suspendable when we really super-duper want it to be, we can raise the price of low-value-added labor without reducing demand for it ad nauseum. :)
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Indeed, why stop at only $15/hour? DC's MW (now $10,50/hour) is about 50% above the federal MW and there are many calls to raise the federal MW to $15/hour. Why doesn't DC just make its MW double (or triple) the federal MW just to be fair? That way the poor in DC will have even less of a chance of getting hired (in DC) since many more from MD and VA will compete with them for these (soon to be) better paying jobs.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Indeed, why stop at only $15/hour? DC's MW (now $10,50/hour) is about 50% above the federal MW and there are many calls to raise the federal MW to $15/hour. Why doesn't DC just make its MW double (or triple) the federal MW just to be fair? That way the poor in DC will have even less of a chance of getting hired (in DC) since many more from MD and VA will compete with them for these (soon to be) better paying jobs.
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The more I think about it, the stingier the OP is. He must hate poor people :mad:

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Maybe it will help the rampant crime and poverty in east DC.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: District of Columbia approves $15/hour minimum wage | Reuters

The nation's capital has raised its minimum wage to $15 over a period of 4 years! The first raise of $1 will come July 1. :applaud:applaud A step in the right direction for DC!
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While I am probably one of the few conservatives that support minimum wage however I see this blowing up in DC's face and being nothing more than a empty gesture. DC is a city that is basically a 6 x 10 mile wide city surrounded by other towns and cities within a mile or two of DC.Those businesses that don't want to pay a 15 dollar minimum wage are going to relocate outside of DC.Those surrounding cities and towns are probably laughing their ass off right now at DC and thanking DC for being stupid enough to pass a minimum wage increase. The people of DC should probably look into seeing if any of their councilmen and mayor were bribed by surrounding cities to pass that minimum wage increase.
 
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Don't you have to have a wage to increase it? LOL

Washington DC just addressed its massive unemployment problem by raising the minimum wage.

Liberalism in full context.
 
Erod said:
Don't you have to have a wage to increase it? LOL

Washington DC just addressed its massive unemployment problem by raising the minimum wage.

Liberalism in full context.
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Conservatism in context:
Believing that minimum wage increases have a strong correlation to unemployment rates because their gut tells them to.
 
cpwill said:
I strongly support this. Good on them. I think they should raise it again - to $20, $25, $40 dollars an hour. We shouldn't let people slip into poverty. Since labor is immune to the laws of supply and demand, and economic reality is suspendable when we really super-duper want it to be, we can raise the price of low-value-added labor without reducing demand for it ad nauseum. :)
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Plus it teaches the worker a valuable lesson.Why bother working to better yourself when a Democrat politician will make the employer pay you more for doing nothing.VOTE DEMOCRAT!
 
Deuce said:
Conservatism in context:
Believing that minimum wage increases have a strong correlation to unemployment rates because their gut tells them to.
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You don't think a minimum wage increase limits a small business' ability to hire?

Proof that liberals aren't entrepreneurs. Just sycophants.
 
Erod said:
You don't think a minimum wage increase limits a small business' ability to hire?

Proof that liberals aren't entrepreneurs. Just sycophants.
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On the macroeconomic scale it doesn't appear to do that, no.
 
Deuce said:
On the macroeconomic scale it doesn't appear to do that, no.
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Let's not play the 'studies show ' game. We all know liberals and conservatives can dig up numerous studies to support their point of view. However, most studies evaluate small or modest increases. very little ,if any research has been done on wage hikes of this magnitude.

SO what does your common sense say?
If a business has to pay significantly higer wages, well they be
A) more likely
B) Less likely
to hire or keep min. wage workers?
 
cpwill said:
I strongly support this. Good on them. I think they should raise it again - to $20, $25, $40 dollars an hour. We shouldn't let people slip into poverty. Since labor is immune to the laws of supply and demand, and economic reality is suspendable when we really super-duper want it to be, we can raise the price of low-value-added labor without reducing demand for it ad nauseum. :)
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Hyperbolic slippery slope fail #1
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Indeed, why stop at only $15/hour? DC's MW (now $10,50/hour) is about 50% above the federal MW and there are many calls to raise the federal MW to $15/hour. Why doesn't DC just make its MW double (or triple) the federal MW just to be fair? That way the poor in DC will have even less of a chance of getting hired (in DC) since many more from MD and VA will compete with them for these (soon to be) better paying jobs.
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Hyperbolic slippery slope fail #2
 
Deuce said:
Conservatism in context:
Believing that minimum wage increases have a strong correlation to unemployment rates because their gut tells them to.
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The facts show a correlation. 7 out of the last 9 times min wage has increased (nationally I haven't studied individual locations) unemployment went up.
the other two times it was flat.

Oh and while Washington state is doin ok with unemployment .. it actually had went down a little, the Seattle area where they did this same measure, unemployment has went up.
 
Erod said:
You don't think a minimum wage increase limits a small business' ability to hire?

Proof that liberals aren't entrepreneurs. Just sycophants.
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I think the marginal employees that you could take a chance on at minimum wage, or just above, will now become too expensive to mess with. I'd bet the labor market becomes a lot more competitive, and the ones clamoring the loudest for $15 an hour will be the ones on the outside looking in.
 
KLATTU said:
Let's not play the 'studies show ' game. We all know liberals and conservatives can dig up numerous studies to support their point of view. However, most studies evaluate small or modest increases. very little ,if any research has been done on wage hikes of this magnitude.

SO what does your common sense say?
If a business has to pay significantly higer wages, well they be
A) more likely
B) Less likely
to hire or keep min. wage workers?
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What a about a business whose customers have more disposable income?

See, turns out the real world is more complicated than a simple question like this.
 
digsbe said:
Maybe it will help the rampant crime and poverty in east DC.
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More money for them to buy nicer guns and cars for more accurate drive by shootings?
 
11Bravo said:
More money for them to buy nicer guns and cars for more accurate drive by shootings?
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That would reduce casualties among bystanders. Win win!
 
Deuce said:
On the macroeconomic scale it doesn't appear to do that, no.
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Then why ease it up over a period of years? DC is a tiny geographic area such that folks from DC can easily shop outside of it and workers from surrounding areas can easily commute to those jobs.
 
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