Minnesota Governor Signs Bill To Raise State’s Minimum Wage

[windjammer]

Article: http://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/news/11416015/minnesota-governor-signs-bill-to-raise-states-minimum-wage

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Great news for Minnesota!

[Potatoe]

SOCIALIST! We will beat Joseph Dayton and revoke his Daytoncare and free the people! #bachmentum (normal krazen)

[Lief 🗽]

Poor teenagers who will lose there job

Okay. Meanwhile, real people who support themselves and their families will earn more and spend more.

[windjammer]

Poor teenagers who will lose there job

No, they will just get a pay raise!

[AggregateDemand]

Okay. Meanwhile, real people who support themselves and their families will earn more and spend more.

And you wonder why Gen Y said Obama should be incarcerated. At some point, Democrats aren't going to be able to sell the future to buy constituents in the present.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Wonderful news.

[windjammer]

Okay. Meanwhile, real people who support themselves and their families will earn more and spend more.

And you wonder why Gen Y said Obama should be incarcerated. At some point, Democrats aren't going to be able to sell the future to buy constituents in the present.

Why Obama should be incarcerated? Because he wants to raise the minimum wage? Loool

[TDAS04]

Great news.  It's good for Minnesotans to have Dayton, and not Walker, as their governor.

[windjammer]

Minnesota has now the highest minimum wage rate! Dominating.

[AggregateDemand]

Why Obama should be incarcerated? Because he wants to raise the minimum wage? Loool

Gen Y was apparently angry with the cost of healthcare, and the lack of subsidies for young healthy people. If Dems take away even more employment opportunities for young Americans, they are going to get themselves into hot water.

[muon2]

MN can afford the change given the state's economy. The usual concern is that unemployment will rise as companies invest labor dollars into higher wages rather than new hires. However, MN has a low unemployment rate of 4.8% (11th in the nation), and is well below the national average of 6.7% in Mar. I suspect there already is quite a bit of upward pressure on low end wages in MN as employers compete for workers, so raising the floor will do little to increase unemployment.

[windjammer]

Why Obama should be incarcerated? Because he wants to raise the minimum wage? Loool

Gen Y was apparently angry with the cost of healthcare, and the lack of subsidies for young healthy people. If Dems take away even more employment opportunities for young Americans, they are going to get themselves into hot water.

Fortunately, Obama isn't Paul Lepage. The fact that young people are forced to work in order to pay their tuition bill is an aberration.

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And Minnesota was before one of the states with the lowest minimum wage rate.
All Republicans voted against the minimum wage hike. All democrats but one voted in favor of it.

BRTD, why is Gene Palowski so rightwing?

[free my dawg]

Poor teenagers who will lose there job

>there

Like you?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

A little worried that the rate of increase might be too steep, especially if that 9500 mills per hour takes effect on 1 January 2016. Since the Federal minimum is currently 7250 mills per hour, I think a more gradual increase to 9500 mills would be better, say to 7400 mills per hour on 1 July of this year, and increasing a further 150 mills per quarter until reaching 9500 mills per hour as of 1 January 2018.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Another great thing from Dayton and our legislature. We're actually getting things done here.

Why Obama should be incarcerated? Because he wants to raise the minimum wage? Loool

Gen Y was apparently angry with the cost of healthcare, and the lack of subsidies for young healthy people. If Dems take away even more employment opportunities for young Americans, they are going to get themselves into hot water.

Fortunately, Obama isn't Paul Lepage. The fact that young people are forced to work in order to pay their tuition bill is an aberration.

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And Minnesota was before one of the states with the lowest minimum wage rate.
All Republicans voted against the minimum wage hike. All democrats but one voted in favor of it.

BRTD, why is Gene Palowski so rightwing?

Honestly I don't know. He represents a liberal college town. Making it all the more odd because college students would benefit from this.

[BaconBacon96]

Great decision.

[MaxQue]

Terrible, it's a fake minimum wage, as there is a lower mininum wage for younger people.

[Mr. Illini]

They've gone from the lowest in the Midwest to surpassing Illinois as the highest in the Midwest. Illinois needs to start taking notes on Minnesota, as they are able to implement similar liberal policies but in a way that has made their state one of the fiscally healthiest states in the area, while Illinois is, well...

[muon2]

They've gone from the lowest in the Midwest to surpassing Illinois as the highest in the Midwest. Illinois needs to start taking notes on Minnesota, as they are able to implement similar liberal policies but in a way that has made their state one of the fiscally healthiest states in the area, while Illinois is, well...

... trying to protect Chicago and protect established interests.

I could go on for an hour about the differences in tax policies between the two states (I've lived in both). Fundamentally MN is open to change while IL is resistant. That has little to do with the partisan leanings of the two states. It is very much core to their respective identities.

[RedSLC]

Great news.  It's good for Minnesotans to have Dayton, and not Walker, as their governor.

[LeBron]

Awesome! It's about time considering its been a decade since. It could have happened earlier with the rise of inflation, but Pawlenty vetoed a minimum wage bill passed by the DFL-controlled legislature in 2008 that would have been higher than the $6.55 federal minimum wage at the time for large businesses ($7.75) and small businesses ($6.75) with an override being impossible. But yeah, for a minimum wage that's lower than Arkansas' and is about on the same level for small employers as Wyoming's minimum wage, it's time for this already.

It may have been nice to see a more liberal bill than this, but at least it will be up with the federal minimum soon (assuming Boehner continues to be incompetent and the discharge petition fails to get enough signatures), so it should be at about $7.85 by 2015 if my math's correct (just 10 cents behind ours). Ohio rules.