Bumping up wages is not an excuse for not doing enough to sustain a business community in a failing city.
Newly elected Baltimore Mayor vetoes 11-3 city council bill to raise minimum wage to $15 by 2022
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88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
how about Seattle which only has a million more in their metro? All the scare tactics used out there are falling flat
More money = more spending.
the next guy
Superstar
Weak as hell and not surprised. This is why people hate politics.In case you haven't been keeping score, this is L number 2 for black folks in the democratic party:
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but the republicans!!!!!
y'all are doing a great job of turning it around for midterms guys....keep up the hard work
Seattle is one of the most expensive cities in the country...with a thriving economy and a vastly different labor force.
Baltimore, is not.
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
"We told them we just can't afford to pay them decently!"
Domingo Halliburton
Handmade in USA
There's arguments for both sides. Studies have shown in the past that it can cause loss in employment. This is especially true in undeveloped nations. Recently some studies have seemed to doubt these findings. Regionally, a place like Seattle it has worked with minimal side effects.
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
The bourgeoisie has used the same exact arguments against the minimum wage for over 100 years.
Some of y'all still don't get it.
Some of y'all still don't get it.
@ the excuses in here. People really want the minimum wage to be 7.25 forever? I was making that back in the year 2000 at my winter job when I was a freshman in high school. These corporations and greedy people can't stand the thought of poor people leveraging wages. 
But another note, why aren't people going after the CEO who makes over 500 times their average worker? Are they unquestionable Gods that are righteous?
Umm, these things don't work when it's just the city. Businesses flee. Not when the city is $5 higher then the rest of the state.
How you going to have a minimum wage that's $15 in the city and $10-11 the next lot over?
Maryland is a liberal state, it'll probably be close to $15 by the time 2022 rolls around anyway. No need to force it at the city level.
How you going to have a minimum wage that's $15 in the city and $10-11 the next lot over?
Maryland is a liberal state, it'll probably be close to $15 by the time 2022 rolls around anyway. No need to force it at the city level.
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
If she campaigned on it that's ho shyt
Throw her in a vacant
Throw her in a vacant
Min wage is a price floor and like any price floor it leads to inefficiencies (unemployment).
Libs that support exuberant min wages seem okay sacrificing some people's jobs as long as it results in those who kept their job having more money...
Libs that support exuberant min wages seem okay sacrificing some people's jobs as long as it results in those who kept their job having more money...
But another note, why aren't people going after the CEO who makes over 500 times their average worker? Are they unquestionable Gods that are righteous?
My first summer job was $7.50 an hour while the minimum wage was $5.15