[Job-Discussions] 'This isn't Bernie's first rodeo': Senate Republicans tried to force Democrats to take a tough vote on a $15 minimum wage, but it did not go as planned

[Rob Hudson]

On the surface of things you'd think that a minimum wage law makes sense. After all, if there was no minum wage, businesses would hire workers at the lowest wage they could get away with, right?
Why is it being increased to fifteen. If fifteen is good, what about twenty. Wouldn't that be better? Heck, why not thirty. It's not a black and white issue of just arbitrarily telling businesses, hey, you have to pay this amount of money to your workers, or else.
There have been actual studies done which show that, when  a state passes an increase in minimum wage law, lower wage workers actually get reduced hours. And fewer lower wage workers are hired. So no, I don't see the increase as a good thing.

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 09:51:51 -0500
Subject: Re: [Job-Discussions] 'This isn't Bernie's first rodeo': Senate Republicans tried to force Democrats to take a tough vote on a $15 minimum wage, but it did not go as planned

> I disagree completely. The minimum wage must be increased to $15 an hour and those of us on Social Security need to make sure we know the rulesand follow them. We will be just fine.
Jordan

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> On Feb 6, 2021, at 1:34 AM, Rob Hudson via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> ?Raising the min wage will make getting hired even harder. So yeah, I don't see this as a good thing.
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> Subject: [Job-Discussions] 'This isn't Bernie's first rodeo': Senate Republicans tried to force Democrats to take a tough vote on a $15 minimum wage, but it did not go as planned
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>> Hello Everyone, 
> Some people are afraid of going to work snd losing their SSDI, SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits because they heard the federal government is going to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour soon. That is not true. See this article, which explains that increases to that amount will be phased in over the next four years. Enough time for the NFB to react to anything that might hurt you.
> Dick Davis, Chair
> NFB Employment Committee 
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