That’s the proposal from Representative Jessyn Farrell for the entire state. Goldy has the details and some speculation about what it could mean for Seattle’s efforts.
Washington’s current inflation-indexed minimum wage of $9.32 an hour is already on pace to exceed $10 an hour by 2017, so the actual net increase on final phase-in would be less than $2 an hour. But that’s not nothing to the half-million or so Washingtonians who see their wages go up. It’s also arguably good for the economy and good for taxpayers.
“If families have more money in their pocket, it lessens the demand for government assistance,” Farrell explained in a press release. “That saves all of us money.”
True. Although it’s first and foremost a moral issue. People ought to be able to survive and raise a family in this state. And a minimum wage ought to be reflective of that. I’d still prefer a $15 minimum wage statewide, but this is an obvious improvement.
It’ll never pass the “majority coalition” senate.
What Recovery?
CNN reports that 95% of the economy’s gains since 2008 have gone to households earning over $394,000; and that unemployment would be over 10% if discouraged workers who have dropped out of the workforce were counted.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/2.....?hpt=hp_t2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Government policies have benefited only the rich. Most Americans are still living in a depression.
We need government regulators to protect us because companies, and the rich people who own them, can’t be trusted.
http://www.businessweek.com/ar.....now#r=most popular
The posterboy country for austerity is sliding into recession.
http://www.businessweek.com/ar.....e#r=hpt-fs
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Conservatives are wrong about austerity, period. Cutting government spending during a downturn makes the downturn worse, period. But reality has never stopped advocates of Wingnut Whack-O-Nomics.
Why not make it $30 an hour? I bet that would make fools like Sawant happy (though she probably won’t be happy until everyone is equally poor.)
@2 Can’t help but think of all the rich folks at Davos this weekend congratulating themselves for doing such a bang-up job while the markets all over the world have gone into a nose dive.
I have nothing against a sub minimum wage.
It is all RETHUGS like GOATBOY are worth.
Win an AR 15!
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The details are on THE Ave.US
Poor ekim,
Getting paid what’s he’s worth… not much at all.
A swing and a miss GOATBOY.
@8 I’m not worth anything, because I produce nothing of value, but I get paid handsomely by the stock market. Well that’s CAPITALISM for ya!
Next time a conservative tells you pensions are unaffordable and a thing of the past, show him this:
http://www.reuters.com/article.....CS20140124
Why do wealthy people always get wealthier during depressions? And does that have anything to do with why we have to go through depressions?
“Why do wealthy people always get wealthier during depressions?”
I don’t know. On the other hand, how does a rising tide give you a better boat? The boat’s the same, the water is just higher.
@14 Sorry, but that analogy doesn’t work anymore. The wealthy are taking it all, and no one else’s boat is being lifted. That’s what the income data show.