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Minimum wage jobs are the definition of slavery. They are the jobs where people work the hardest, and workers tend to come from the lower-class as they are scrapping for dollars. Business owners get to pay the MINIMUM required for the employee to do the slave work, and it is generally accepted by society. If they have to increase the wages, they punish the provokers by firing a majority of them or cutting their hours into unreasonable ones. Instead of fighting to make more money from a slave job, go to school and get a real job where you will be controlling the population and get to make your own choices, then none of this will ever come across your mind.

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Minimum wage jobs are the definition of slavery. They are the jobs where people work the hardest, and workers tend to come from the lower-class as they are scrapping for dollars. Business owners get to pay the MINIMUM required for the employee to do the slave work, and it is generally accepted by society. If they have to increase the wages, they punish the provokers by firing a majority of them or cutting their hours into unreasonable ones. Instead of fighting to make more money from a slave job, go to school and get a real job where you will be controlling the population and get to make your own choices, then none of this will ever come across your mind.

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YOU should not be the one begging for a minimum wage increase unless you know for a fact you will remain an employee at the job you currently work for. Again, it is an act being played by the CEO's of businesses, they want the increase because it means more profit for them and less people they can pay! Think again soldier. 

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YOU should not be the one begging for a minimum wage increase unless you know for a fact you will remain an employee at the job you currently work for. Again, it is an act being played by the CEO's of businesses, they want the increase because it means more profit for them and less people they can pay! Think again soldier. 

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This video came from the Youtube channel PragerU on the day of Aug 21, 2017. I do not claim any part of this video, it is for informational purposes only. It describes what would occur if the minimum wage increases across the country of the USA.

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Who Does a $15 Minimum Wage Help? | 5 Minute Video

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Donald Trump will be joining the event on 12/19 @ Ms. King's classroom! Make sure you come too so you can ask him all the questions you've wanted to and hear the point of view of a wealthy American on minimum wage!

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Donald Trump will be joining the event on 12/19 @ Ms. King's classroom! Make sure you come too so you can ask him all the questions you've wanted to and hear the point of view of a wealthy American on minimum wage!

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Since the dollar and coins were invented, people have never been satisfied. If the minimum wage increases, the dollar loses value, meaning people want another increase! 100 years ago cars were worth $1,000 (LUXURY), now they range from $100,000 into the millions.  How much do you think just a healthy sandwich from the deli will end up costing? Who will be the one putting together that sandwich? 

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Since the dollar and coins were invented, people have never been satisfied. If the minimum wage increases, the dollar loses value, meaning people want another increase! 100 years ago cars were worth $1,000 (LUXURY), now they range from $100,000 into the millions.  How much do you think just a healthy sandwich from the deli will end up costing? Who will be the one putting together that sandwich? 

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This political cartoon was downloaded off of google images on Dec 19, 2017. I do not own this image, it is for informational purposes only.

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As the main advocates for leaving minimum wage as is are business owners, Seattle has proven that it may not be quite bad after all. With less employees, they find the cream of the crop workers and no longer have to pay people who slave away with no talent, INCREASING their profits. 

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As the main advocates for leaving minimum wage as is are business owners, Seattle has proven that it may not be quite bad after all. With less employees, they find the cream of the crop workers and no longer have to pay people who slave away with no talent, INCREASING their profits. 

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This article was provided by July Weed on July 31, 2017 of the NYTimes. I did not write this article, it is being used for informational purposes only.

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"There's a lot of noise" about higher minimum wages, he said, but he decides whether to enter an area based on an overall favorable economic outlook. If the area is not doing well, "we're not going in there," he said, so wages are not generally a factor.

Sylvia A. Allegretto, an economist and co-chairwoman of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley, said she and her colleagues had studied 30 years of wage and employment data and found that higher minimum wages had not reduced employment.

Higher pay, she said, often translates to lower employee turnover, as fewer employees leave to seek better-paying jobs. For employers, that means decreased costs for replacement hiring and training. Also, she said, the modestly higher prices that may result - for example in food concessions - are generally borne by customers.

Josh Bivens, research director at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute in Washington, said low-income workers who receive pay increases are likely to spend that extra income, stimulating economic growth, an effect called "middle-out economics."

"Wage increases at the middle and bottom are recycled back into the economy as spending on restaurants, clothes, cars - all things that support employment in other sectors of the economy," Mr. Bivens said.

Mr. Robinson, the SeaTac economic development director, said hoteliers had adapted to the ordinance, which requires any hotel with at least 100 rooms or 30 full-time employees to pay the $15 minimum wage. "Nobody eliminated rooms to get under it," he said.

Steven Lou, whose company, Lou Development, is building a 132-room Hyatt House and a 237-room Hyatt Place in SeaTac, said he was not worried about the $15 minimum wage. In fact, he expected to pay even more to hotel employees.

"We are willing to pay a good wage for stable, skilled employees," he said. "After they are trained and have been with us a while, they will make more than $15 an hour."

If room prices go up a little to help pay for the higher wages, he said he thought the market could easily bear it.

Taylor Kerns, investment analyst at the Corinthian Development Company, based near San Jose, Calif., said his company decided to increase the size of the Wingate hotel it was building in SeaTac to 157 rooms from 123 partly because of the higher minimum wage.

"We're mostly a 'heads in beds' property," he said, meaning the hotel does not offer amenities like a full restaurant. "So the majority of our employees are housekeeping and security." They would typically be lower-wage employees, he said.

Corinthian decided that increasing the number of hotel rooms would raise the property's revenue, but would not require many more employees to accommodate the extra guests. "We'd gain in efficiency," Mr. Kerns said.

He said the firm also decided to increase the room count because most of the available land in the area had been purchased. "I don't think there will be many new hotels for quite a while after these all go in," he said.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 19 states began 2017 with higher minimum wages, because of increased cost-of-living adjustments, ballot initiatives passed by voters or state legislation.

Mr. Robinson said he advised other cities increasing minimum wages to "engage the community, listen to concerns, be responsive as you can." Jobs, he said, "are important." He said he also works closely with developers to make the regulations work for the city and business interests.

Yogi Hutsen, executive vice president of Columbia Hospitality, said Cedarbrook Lodge in SeaTac was already planning to add 67 rooms to the 100 rooms already there when the higher minimum wage was approved. He said that revenue takes a harder hit in food and beverages than in lodging when wages go up because "people are more likely to notice a price increase of a few dollars on a menu than on a room rate."

He said that it takes some time for businesses to adjust to higher wages and see "what can be passed on and what the company has to absorb," but that his company was committed to fair compensation for its staff.

He said he only wished that neighboring cities would follow SeaTac's lead and raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. "We're in a noncompetitive situation," he said, "and it would be easier if everyone else was paying the exact same wages."

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Hotel Boom in SeaTac Is Unfettered by $15 Minimum Wage

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"There's a lot of noise" about higher minimum wages, he said, but he decides whether to enter an area based on an overall favorable economic outlook. If the area is not doing well, "we're not going in there," he said, so wages are not generally a factor. Sylvia A.

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As stated by the NY Times in July of 2017, minimum wage increase has proven to be an "I-told-you-so" as a substantial number of employees in businesses have been fired. 

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As stated by the NY Times in July of 2017, minimum wage increase has proven to be an "I-told-you-so" as a substantial number of employees in businesses have been fired. 

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This article was written by Arindrajit Dube on July 20, 2017. I do not own/claim any part of the article, it is for informational purposes only. It speaks of the effect of the minimum wage increase on workers in Seattle.

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The basic idea in both studies is that if the minimum wage rises to $13 an hour, for example, the effect on jobs can be inferred by looking at changes in employment below a cutoff like $18 or $19. Of course, jobs are added and lost - and wages change - for lots of reasons that don't involve the minimum wage, so some sort of control group is needed.

Here's what the University of Washington study, commissioned by Seattle officials, found:

The minimum wage went from $11 to $13 for large employers in January 2016. There was a large reduction in employment (total hours of work) among those who had been earning below $13, and an increase in employment between $13 and $19, though the "spike" at the new minimum wage was rather small. Comparing the losses (in yellow) with the gains up to $19 (in maroon) suggests that four of five full-time equivalent minimum-wage jobs were lost. For workers under $19 an hour, researchers found a 9 percent decline in full-time-equivalent jobs, compared with only a 3 percent increase in wages.

In contrast, our study (pooling 137 cases) found little change in employment in the five years after a minimum-wage increase. The job losses below the minimum were balanced by job gains up to $5 above the new minimum, including a sharp bunching of jobs paying at the new minimum (such bunching has been common in past studies). Low-wage workers saw a wage gain of 7 percent, but little change in employment.

We found that when an increase in the minimum wage raises bottom wages by 3 percent (as in Seattle), it is unlikely to reduce employment by more than 1.5 percent - let alone the 9 percent found in the Washington study. And even when we separately analyzed some of the bigger past increases, this conclusion held.

Reassuringly, as the figure shows, we also found virtually no change in employment higher up in the wage distribution even up to the highest wage level. This last point is important. When you don't see this picture, it should give you pause because it suggests that wage and job dynamics may be quite different in the control group.

The University of Washington findings show pervasive gains in employment between $20 and $39, so the cumulative job loss gets smaller at higher thresholds. For every two jobs lost under $19, one new job was created between $20 and $39. Had the authors looked at wages above $39, it's possible that this pattern would have continued, further diminishing the lost job count. This affects how we evaluate the policy's overall impact. For example, if you look only under $19, it suggests low-wage workers' total quarterly earnings slipped by $39 million. But adding up changes up to $39 an hour suggests earnings rose by $17 million.

This upper-wage job growth raises concerns about the reliability of the control group because (as the authors themselves argue) minimum wages cannot plausibly affect jobs in this range. An alternative explanation for the study's findings is that underlying fast wage growth in Seattle - and not the minimum wage itself - explains both the reduction in low-wage jobs and the gains in higher-wage jobs.

When I asked the Washington study's authors whether this alternative hypothesis could explain the pattern of their findings, they noted a key element of timing: "We see very distinct job losses occurring exactly at the beginning of 2016," when the minimum wage rose from $11 to $13. (The authors found job losses were much smaller at the $11 minimum wage.)

But a quick look at the data suggests something else may be going on. Between the second quarters of 2014 and 2016, earnings in Seattle grew by an incredible 21 percent, as opposed to 6 percent in parts of Washington outside the Seattle area. And the first quarter of 2016 was exactly when the very large gap in overall wage growth between Seattle and rest of the state (where the control group comes from) really opened up, coinciding with the timing of the job loss found by the University of Washington team. At this point we don't know enough, but clearly there are some missing pieces to this puzzle.

It may be that some recent minimum-wage increases have resulted in job loss, and that Seattle's big increase - with plans to reach $15 for all employers by 2021 - may yet turn out to be too high. However, it's too soon to draw definite conclusions. Even more important, we should remember that the Washington analysis is a single study of a single minimum-wage increase. Fortunately, there is no need to rely on a single case study when we have many other cities as well as states (like Oregon, California and New York) that are in the process of raising the minimum wage substantially.

Putting all of those together, along with our evidence from past increases, will give a much more complete picture of how high the minimum wage should go to improve the lives of people at the bottom of the wage scale without throwing lots of people out of work.

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Minimum Wage and Job Loss: One Alarming Seattle Study Is Not the Last Word

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The basic idea in both studies is that if the minimum wage rises to $13 an hour, for example, the effect on jobs can be inferred by looking at changes in employment below a cutoff like $18 or $19.

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The chosen song sung by The Expendables puts the listener directly into the point of view of a minimum wage worker. Listen to put yourself into their shoes. 

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The chosen song sung by The Expendables puts the listener directly into the point of view of a minimum wage worker. Listen to put yourself into their shoes. 

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I do not claim ownership of this song. It was sung by The Expendables and uploaded to YouTube on June 24 of 2010. It is used for entertainment purposes only.

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A minimum wage increase helps workers save more to spend on their family and food in order to survive. Minimum wage increase has went into effect across the entire country of the USA.

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A minimum wage increase helps workers save more to spend on their family and food in order to survive. Minimum wage increase has went into effect across the entire country of the USA.

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A lot of Americans are getting a raise this holiday weekend.

Minimum wage hikes take effect Saturday in cities, counties and states across the country.

In San Francisco and Los Angeles, the increase is a step toward a minimum wage of $15 an hour -- the "living wage" threshold that workers' rights activists have been lobbying for since 2012.

The minimum wage goes up to $14 an hour in San Francisco on Saturday, on the way to $15 next year. In Los Angeles, it rises to between $10.50 and $12, depending on the size of the business. It will hit $15 for all businesses in 2021.

"It's a lot of help," Agadette Solis, a 21-year-old IHOP hostess in Los Angeles, told CNNMoney.

She joined the Fight for $15 movement last year, and says her wages help support her two siblings and her mother, who has another baby on the way.

"Even if it's $1 or $1.50, it's more money for me to save up or spend on my siblings," Solis said. Her pay will jump from $10.50 an hour to $12.

Other parts of the country have approved more modest bumps. Maryland will raise the minimum wage from $8.75 to $9.25 this weekend, then up to $10.10 next year.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Congress hasn't raised it in 10 years.

Here's where workers will get a boost on Saturday, and how much they'll start making.

Chicago: $11 an hour.

Cook County, Illinois: $10 an hour.

Emeryville, California: $15.20 an hour for businesses with more than 56 employees, and $14 an hour for businesses with 55 or fewer employees.

Flagstaff, Arizona: $10.50 an hour.

Los Angeles: $12 an hour for businesses with more than 26 employees, and $10.50 an hour for businesses with 25 or fewer employees.

Maryland: $9.25 an hour.

Milpitas, California: $11 an hour.

Montgomery County, Maryland: $11.50 an hour.

Oregon: $10.25 an hour. (Exception: $11.25 an hour in the Portland metro area, and $10 an hour in some counties designated as "non-urban.")

Pasadena, California: $12 an hour for businesses with 26 or more employees, and $10.50 an hour or businesses with 25 or fewer employees.

San Francisco: $14 an hour.

San Jose, California: $12 an hour.

San Leandro, California: $12 an hour.

Santa Monica, California: $12 an hour for businesses with 26 or more employees, and $10.50 an hour or businesses with 25 or fewer employees.

Washington, D.C.: $12.50 an hour.

Sources: Employment Policies Institute, National Employment Law Project, National Conference for State Legislatures and Business for a Fair Minimum Wage.

CNNMoney (New York) First published June 30, 2017: 12:41 PM ET

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Minimum wage: Here's where Americans are getting a raise this weekend

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Minimum wage hikes take effect Saturday in cities, counties and states across the country. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, the increase is a step toward a minimum wage of $15 an hour -- the "living wage" threshold that workers' rights activists have been lobbying for since 2012.

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Join us in our discussion! (12/19) @Ms. Kings classroom

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Join us in our discussion! (12/19) @Ms. Kings classroom

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Increasing minimum wage results in high prices for customers and no hours for employees. It will hurt the general public whom are asking for it, not the business CEO's. 

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Increasing minimum wage results in high prices for customers and no hours for employees. It will hurt the general public whom are asking for it, not the business CEO's. 

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The article and video inside the link below are property of FOX NEWS since April 19, 2016. It shows the POV of a food chain CEO (Popeyes) and states how the increase will effect workers.

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Popeyes CEO: Why the Hike to a $15 Minimum Wage Won't Work

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The Fight for $15 has taken center stage ahead of the Democratic primary in New York, with protesters calling for the federal minimum wage to be raised to $15.