Showing posts with label Minimum Wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minimum Wage. Show all posts
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By Powerline Blog, July 29, 2016
So it’s fun to notice this morning that the city of Seattle, which threw out both shoulders patting itself on the back for raising its minimum age to $11 an hour last year, is finding the results are . . . not so good. Seattle commissioned a study by a group of economists, who reported in a few days ago:
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Seattle Workers Requesting FEWER Hours
SEATTLE, Wash. — A Seattle-area nonprofit observed some workers recently asking for reduced hours, as they feared that their higher wages now put them at risk of losing housing subsidies.
Nora Gibson is the executive director of Full Life Care, a nonprofit that serves elderly people in various homes and nursing facilities. She is also on the board of the Seattle Housing Authority.
Gibson told KIRO 7 she saw a sudden reaction from workers when Seattle’s phased minimum-wage ordinance took effect in April, bringing minimum wage to $11 an hour. She said anecdotally, some people feared they would lose their subsidized units but still not be able to afford market-rate rents.
For example, she said last week, five employees at one of her organization’s 24-hour care facilities for Alzheimer’s patients asked to reduce their hours in order to remain eligible for subsidies. They now earn at least $13 an hour, after they increased wages at all levels in April, Gibson said.
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Kansas City Raises Its Minimum Wage — But Not For Teens
By Lydia DePillis, July 17, 2015 Washington Post
Last night, the Kansas City Council voted overwhelmingly to raise the city's minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2020. But these policies aren't as simple as they seem -- they also involve choices about who the new wage floor applies to, what the penalties are for noncompliance and whether small businesses should get a break.
In this instance, perhaps the biggest argument was over age: Should everybody be entitled to the higher minimum wage, or should teenagers be left out?
The fight goes to the heart of the debate over the impact of the minimum wage, and whether it might hurt the very people it's supposed to help.
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Saturday, May 30, 2015
L.A. Minimum Wage Plan Moves Forward Without Union Exemption
A landmark plan to boost the Los Angeles minimum wage took another step forward Friday, as a panel of city lawmakers vetted a draft ordinance putting the pay hikes into law.
But a host of complex and divisive questions about the plan will likely remain unanswered even after the law is passed -- including whether unionized companies will ultimately be able to opt out of the wage requirements if their workers agree.
"This is an ongoing process," City Councilman Curren Price, who heads the Economic Development Committee, said Friday. "There’s still a lot of things to be resolved."
When it takes up the proposed law next Wednesday, the full council is widely expected to pass the ordinance, which would gradually increase the citywide minimum to $15 hourly rate by July 2020. But because the pay hikes do not start until the middle of next year, officials could make changes to the law before the increases begin.
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