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The House passes the $15 per Hour minimum wage.

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Raise the Wage Act - H.R. 582

The House passed (231-199) the Raise the Wage Act (H.R. 582).
The Raise the Wage Act (H.R. 582) has been a priority for Democrats, albeit one that had to overcome uncertainty from some members and pressure from the business community to get within reach of passage, Jaclyn Diaz and Chris Opfer report.
Despite the efforts to soften the proposal to get it past the finish line in the House, it doesn’t appear to be gaining any traction in the Republican-controlled Senate.
“It is dead on arrival, as it should be,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said.
The measure would increase the minimum wage in phases until it reached $15. It would tie the wage floor to inflation after that. It also proposes an elimination of exceptions to the minimum wage for tipped workers, teenage workers, and workers with disabilities.
“The American workers have experienced a pay cut in real income due to inflation and the government’s failure to raise wages. It is unconscionable that people working full time in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world are unable to afford basic essentials or live in poverty,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said on the House floor yesterday.
The bill’s path to a vote wasn’t easy. Concessions have been made since it was first floated in an effort to bring on board more moderate members who were initially worried about a wage boost’s effect on smaller businesses and communities. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) introduced a last-minute amendment to extend the progression to $15 to six years, rather than the original five. That change was made when the House adopted the rule governing floor debate.

The federal minimum wage would be increased to $15 an hour from $7.25 by 2025, and then adjusted annually based on median wages, under H.R. 582.
The bill also would gradually phase out separate lower wages for tipped workers, youth, and individuals with disabilities.
Twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., have wage floors that are higher than the federal minimum as of July 1, according to the Labor Department.
Some cities and counties have even higher minimum wages, and several states have enacted laws requiring a $15 minimum wage to be in place by 2025 or earlier.
“We are now experiencing the longest period of time without an increase in the federal minimum wage since it was created in 1938,” said Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), the bill’s sponsor and House Education and Labor Committee chairman, in a news release.
The last increase to the federal minimum wage was enacted in 2007 under Public Law 110-28, which set the wage at $7.25 an hour in 2009.
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Minimum Wage Increases
The measure would increase the hourly minimum wage to at least $8.55 about three months after enactment.
Each year after that the minimum wage would increase to the following specified amounts:


  • $9.85 one year after the initial increase.
  • $11.15 two years after.
  • $12.45 three years after.
  • $13.75 four years after.
  • $15 five years after.

After the minimum wage reaches $15 an hour, the Labor Department would have to annually adjust it, 90 days before its effective date, to reflect any percentage increases in the median hourly wage for all employees. The Bureau of Labor Statistics would compile data on hourly wages to determine the median.
The bill would stipulate that the minimum wage couldn’t decrease.
Tipped Workers
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), workers who make more than $30 a month in tips are paid a cash wage of $2.13 per hour by their employers. If the employee doesn’t earn enough tips to reach the $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage, the employer must cover the difference, called a “tip credit.”
The bill would increase the base hourly wage for tipped workers to at least $3.60 for the first year after the bill takes effect. In each subsequent year, it would be increased until it equals the minimum wage in 2027, according to a summary of the introduced version of the measure from the House Education and Labor Committee. At that point, the tipped wage would be effectively eliminated.
The base wage for tipped workers hasn’t been increased since 1991. In the past, it was equal to between 50 and 60% of the federal minimum wage.
Youth Workers
The hourly wage for employees younger than 20 would be increased to at least $5.50, from $4.25, for the first year after the bill takes effect. It would be increased in each subsequent year until it equals the minimum wage in 2027, after which it also would be effectively eliminated.
Workers with Disabilities
The measure would end the certificate process that employers use to provide subminimum wages to workers with disabilities.
Their hourly wage would have to be at least $4.25 beginning one year after the first increase in the minimum wage takes effect. It would then increase annually until it equals the minimum wage six years later.
The Labor Department would have to provide technical assistance to employers who have certificates to help them transition to the new framework and ensure continuing employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Other Provisions
The measure’s provisions would apply in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 18 months after the first increase in the minimum wage takes effect.
The Labor Department would have to post changes to the minimum wage in the Federal Register and on its website 60 days before it would take effect.
Budget Effects
Implementing the bill would cost $76 million from fiscal 2019 through 2029, subject to appropriation, according to an April 22 cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.
Changes to minimum hourly wages would affect an estimated 100 U.S. Postal Service workers, which would increase off-budget mandatory spending by about $700,000 from fiscal 2020 through 2029, CBO wrote.
CBO said uncertainty in the cost estimate is linked to the projections of increases in the median hourly wage and wage growth for federal employees.
The bill would impose intergovernmental and private-sector mandates by requiring employers to pay a higher minimum wage to workers who are covered by the FLSA. CBO said the cost of the mandates would exceed the thresholds established in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, which are $82 million for intergovernmental mandates and $164 million for private-sector mandates in 2019 and adjusted annually for inflation.
The cost to state, local, and tribal governments would be about $3 billion in fiscal 2025, when the minimum wage reaches $15. The cost to private employers would be about $48 billion.
The annual costs to comply with the measure don’t account for possible employer responses to higher wage requirements, which could include reducing hiring. Costs, however, would still remain higher than the thresholds, according to CBO.
Lawmakers can raise a point of order against measures that would impose unfunded mandates on state, local, and tribal governments if the costs exceed the intergovernmental mandate threshold.
CBO also estimated in a July 8 report that increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour could result in 1.3 million fewer workers with jobs in 2025, according to its median estimate, while boosting wages for 17 million workers.
Administration Position
Though the White House hasn’t release a statement of administration policy on the measure, President Donald Trump said in June he’s deliberating support for increasing the minimum wage and that wages have improved during his presidency.
Trump’s economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, opposes a national minimum wage, Bloomberg Law reported in February. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has also said that he doesn’t support raising the minimum wage.
Group Positions
More than 350 groups signed onto a January 2019 letter SUPPORTING the bill, including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, NAACP, National Disability Rights Network, National Education Association, and the National Employment Law Project.
The Center for Medicare Advocacy also SUPPORTS the measure.
“The bulk of recent economic research on the minimum wage, as well as the best scholarship, establishes that prior increases have had little to no negative consequences and instead have meaningfully raised the pay of the low-wage workforce,” said Ben Zipperer, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, during a February House Education and Labor Committee hearing.
Groups that OPPOSE the measure include the National Restaurant Association and National Federation of Independent Businesses.
“Setting the wage floor substantially higher than the productivity of many workers will likely result in significant employment reductions,” said the American Enterprise Institute’s economic policy studies director, Michael R. Strain, at the committee hearing.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue said in January that a $15 minimum wage might halt some of the progress that immigration reform and more worker training initiatives could bring to the nation’s economy.
Previous Action
Scott introduced the bill, called the “Raise the Wage Act,” on Jan. 16. It had 205 cosponsors, all Democrats, as of July 8.
The House Education and Labor Committee approved an amended version of the bill by a 28-20 party-line vote on March 6. The panel adopted a substitute amendment that added provisions related to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a companion bill (S. 150) on Jan. 16. It was cosponsored by 31 Democrats as of July 8. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) hasn’t considered the measure.
Prospects
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the House will consider legislation to increase the minimum wage during the week of July 15, according to a July 5 dear colleague letter.
The measure is unlikely to be considered in the Republican-controlled Senate. HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) “has never supported the federal government fixing wages.”




Raise the Wage Act


Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate labor committee, and 30 of her Senate colleagues, including Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Reps. Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced a companion bill with 152 cosponsors in the House.
The Raise the Wage Act would raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024 and would be indexed to median wage growth thereafter. This raise would increase the minimum wage higher than its 1968 peak. The federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009.
The bill will also gradually eliminate the loophole that allows tipped workers and workers with disabilities to be paid substantially less than the federal minimum wage, bringing it to parity with the regular minimum wage. Moreover, it would also phase out the youth minimum wage, which allows employers to pay workers under 20 years old a lower wage for the first 90 calendar days of work.



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H.R. 582 - Raise the Wage Act

SO now, what will Bernie run on?

An apartment in New York city is $4.000 a month. The same apartment in Waco TX is $700 per month. Should we have a "national" minimum wage?

I don't think so.
 

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Howdy,
man times have changed. My first job was a helper on a vacuum truck. I made $1.00 per hour. I remember back in the early 60s I was working as a machinist trainee. The pay was $1.50 per hour. The best tool and die makers who were the top of the pay chain made $3.00 per hour. Money today doesnt seem to be worth the ink and paper it takes to make it. Have a goodun!!!!
 

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My first job with a paycheck paid $0.35 per hour. I made more money mowing lawns but Mom insisted I have a "real job."

Later I made $2.03 per hour as a grocery Clerk. Married with a baby and a new convertible, I was in 7th heaven.

I'm not sure but I think my current cable bill is higher than my weekly paycheck in 1969.

Of course, one could say that back then T.V. was "free" and worth every penny.
 

Bamby

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Yep, you're so right.. A penny won't buy the smallest lowermost cheapest washer in a hardware store and to think at one time there were some it's that sold for just a fraction of a cent.
 

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The day wait staff start getting $15 bucks an hour is the day I stop giving tips. They cannot have it both ways.

The history of tipping started in the USA right after the civil war. Black porters on Pullman cars made very little, a pittance. Tips kept them going. Same with wait staff today. If that changes, I change.
 

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My first real job was as a cook in a restaurant making $5.85 an hour back in 94. The liberals increased the minimum wage to $15 an hour last year up here.

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FrancSevin

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Raising the minimum wage to end poverty is like standing in a bucket, grabbing the handle, and hoping to lift yourself up.

It simply doesn't work that way.
 

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This while Bernie's staff will have their hours cut in order to be paid $15/ hr. In this case that's real karma!!
Mike
 

FrancSevin

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Re: The Hous passes the $15 per Hour minimum wage.

This while Bernie's staff will have their hours cut in order to be paid $15/ hr. In this case that's real karma!!
Mike
Cutting hours is exactly what economists say will happen in the private sector. It is amusing that Bernie did exactly what he and the Progress have denied.

Any business has a set amount of dollars in their business model for wages. One simply cannot expand that by government proclamations. So if the pie is sliced bigger then the pieces cut will be fewer.

IE, lay offs or cut hours to get done the same work.
Product quality suffers as does Quality of Life for those effected workers.

If the goalis to provide a better income and quality of life, economists will tell you, and history proves, this action doesn't work in the long term. Never has. But the progressives are convinced THEY can make it work "this time."
 

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Cutting hours is exactly what economists say will happen in the private sector. It is amusing that Bernie did exactly what he and the Progress have denied.

Any business has a set amount of dollars in their business model for wages. One simply cannot expand that by government proclamations. So if the pie is sliced bigger then the pieces cut will be fewer.

IE, lay offs or cut hours to get done the same work.
Product quality suffers as does Quality of Life for those effected workers.

If the goalis to provide a better income and quality of life, economists will tell you, and history proves, this action doesn't work in the long term. Never has. But the progressives are convinced THEY can make it work "this time."

Thats exactly what happen to the wife about 8 years ago as a teacher. 30 hours per week = no benefits. now she does my office work and I'm paying the health care Im gonna cut her hours.
 

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Just when are "they" gonna double every ones Social Security?

All Those people making $15/hr flippin burgers can certainly afford to pay for my SS increase.
 

Doc

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Just when are "they" gonna double every ones Social Security?

All Those people making $15/hr flippin burgers can certainly afford to pay for my SS increase.
You touched on a huge part of the problem with an across the board raise to $15 an hour. Besides employers having to cut hours and or lay off some people, the price of good will go up. People on social security will not get double the money like the kid now making 7.50 an hour and jumping to $15. Teen ager and entry level workers wll make more. Prices will go up and they will be able to afford them. Retired folks will get the shaft. :angry:
 

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Us old folks still know how to tighten our belt when things get tough whether the cause is economic or gov't mandate.
Mike
 

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:th_lmao:

Tlaib Ups the Ante, Calls for $20 Minimum Wage
by HANNAH BLEAU22 Jul 2019

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/22/tlaib-ups-the-ante-calls-for-20-minimum-wage/

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is upping the ante and calling for a minimum wage that exceeds the $15 per hour frequently demanded by her progressive colleagues, proposing instead a $20 minimum wage during a speech at a One Fair Wage event Sunday.

During an event for One Fair Wage – an organization that lobbies to raise the minimum wage for tipped employees – the Michigan lawmaker remarked that the federal minimum wage should actually be $18 or $20 dollars rather than the traditionally touted $15.

“By the way, when we started it, it should have been $15. Now I think it should be $20,” she told the crowd.

“It should be $20 an hour, $18 to $20 at this point,” she added, citing the increased costs of basic products like milk and eggs.

“But I can tell you, milk has gone up, milk has gone up, the cost of everything has gone up, the cost of food has gone up, the cost of a lot of things that we need has gone up already,” she continued.

A recent Congressional Budget Office report found that a $15 minimum wage would wipe out 1.3 million jobs and could cause up to 3.7 million workers to lose their jobs.

Tlaib is not the first progressive lawmaker to call for a federally-mandated minimum wage increase. Last week, the House passed the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2025. The act is not expected to go much further, as Republicans, who largely reject the measure on grounds of economic instability, control the Senate.

“In another step in their socialist agenda, House Democrats pushed through a bill that will force up to 3.7 million Americans to lose their jobs and wreck our economy,” Job Creators Network President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz said in a press release Thursday.

He continued:

There is no question that President Trump’s pro-growth policies are working, raising wages for all Americans, including those in entry-level positions. But instead of building on that progress, House Democrats want to appease the far-left and squeeze the 90 million Americans who work at or own a small business. According to JCN polling, 84 percent of Americans think it’s ‘likely’ that small businesses will have cut jobs if the minimum wage doubles.

Instead of pursuing a $15 minimum wage, Congress should be fighting for $50,000 careers by addressing the skills gap. JCN has launched the ‘Fight for 50’ campaign to fight for careers that pay $50,000 or more. We encourage everyone to visit Fightfor50.com to learn more and join our campaign. JCN will continue to advance this campaign as part of our larger effort to promote the benefits of capitalism.

“Squad” supporter Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has long championed a $15 minimum wage, has faced scrutiny for failing to deliver on that front, with staffers complaining of his campaign paying “poverty wages.”

A letter, addressed to Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir, states that staffers “cannot be expected to build the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while making poverty wages.”

“Given our campaign’s commitment to fighting for a living wage of at least $15.00 an hour, we believe it is only fair that the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team,” the letter added.

Sanders plans to address the issue by limiting staffer hours.
 

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People don't stop to think. Raise minimum wage and the price of everything else goes up along with it. The local corner store that was selling a carton of milk for $5 to cover the cost of someone working for $10 an hour isn't going to be able to make ends meet without having to raise prices. And those gas attendants won't be pumping gas for the higher wages without gas prices increasing to compensate. It's a domino effect that will be felt across the board.

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Jim_S

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People don't stop to think. Raise minimum wage and the price of everything else goes up along with it. The local corner store that was selling a carton of milk for $5 to cover the cost of someone working for $10 an hour isn't going to be able to make ends meet without having to raise prices. And those gas attendants won't be pumping gas for the higher wages without gas prices increasing to compensate. It's a domino effect that will be felt across the board.

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At $20 per hour wonder how many more of Bernies campaign workers will have their hours cut or get fired? :bolt:
 

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Why doesn't Bernie try selling a better product? That way he will get more contributions and can pay better wages.. That is how we do it in the private sector.

Oh wait! My bad.
Ummm----never mind.
 
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