You first, mayor.
Business leaders to Mayor: we move our business else where out of this crap hole.
So sinking your life savings and spending every waking moment trying to help your business survive isn't enough anymore.
Wouldn’t an easier way to promote income equality be to require Goldman Sachs to drop their starting pay to graduating Ivy Leaguers to $13 per hour?
Go p!$$ up a rope.
This clown has never even operated a lemonade stand. When you get real business experience, you can talk.
“Community Organizers” and career politicians only know how to spend other people’s money.
Among many OTHER things, THAT certainly will shove NY off the list of summer vacation destinations that travelers may be considering!
so raising peoples pay $4 pre-tax an hour will somehow empower the less fortunate??
Does anyone in NYC actually work for min. wage? A hotdog costs 5 bucks.
I wish they’d quit sending so many people to Texas.
These business owners up there should have seen this coming years ago when Limbaugh bailed and set up in Palm Beach. I hope DiBlousio turns this shithole on the Hudson into a wasteland.
Payback’s a bitch!
You first mayor!!! Please act in such a way to run the city in such an exemplary way as to show ‘businesses’ how to control costs and spending to make enough money to open the next day. Please don’t be so laughable and appear so stupid with your remarks. You sound as if you are parasitic community organizer - not a leader. Seems we have to many of this type in leadership roles. Elections do have consequences.
In the exposé ‘Poor Kids of Silicon Valley,’ a CNN reporter seems shocked to uncover a high level of child poverty in the affluent Bay Area. CNN concludes that after consulting with “economists and experts,” they learned that a minimum wage hike to $10.10 would significantly help end child poverty. But if CNN actually talked to the most impoverished families, they would have learned that raising minimum wage, the way Oakland just did, results in maximizing single young mothers and their children living in poverty.
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The Labor Center and their union allies convinced San Francisco in 2003 to pioneer the first city-based minimum wage. The San Francisco adopted a local minimum wage of $8.50 an hour, versus the state’s $6.75 per hour. The UC research group claimed the 26% increase help the poor with virtually no loss of employment or hours worked.
The 2003 minimum wage hike was supposed to have an immediately positive impact on the down-trodden food service workers. But the existing average wage in the city's highly-respected restaurant industry was $353 a week for 36.4 hours worked, for an average hourly wage of $9.70. While already making more than 43 percent above the $6.75 minimum wage, the restaurant industry should have been insulated from the wage change.
Why is it that those who have never had a career in business think they know more than business owners how to run a business?
The robots and automats that have been taking over menial work will thank him. Too bad they can’t vote.
“Empower the unfortunate” by forcing them out of the work force and on to permanent welfare and into jail.
Just raise the city's minimum wage Blaso, you just mandated paid leave.
I thought all you libs swear that raising min wage fixes everything.
This guy is a mess.