Posted on 07/06/2017 4:47:24 PM PDT by SMGFan
Why down? Although Missouri’s minimum wage is $7.70 per hour statewide, St. Louis already raised its minimum wage in 2015, with another increase to $11 per hour planned for January. After a two-year legal fight with local business groups, a bill was ultimately passed by the state legislature this spring that bars cities and counties from setting their own minimum wages above the state’s minimum. The bill takes effect on Aug. 28.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What’s next, shooting looters on sight?
So the democrats in the state overrode the “sanctuary city” edict heh?
This will be interesting experiment....
One that should have a lot of positive results...
More young people getting that entry level job, more money put in the economy. Etc...
Best part is liberals head will be explode...
Apparently $9/hr isn’t enough to entice new hires at my local Kroger. The store is coming apart at the seams.
There should be no welfare without work for people who are able-bodied. I’m glad to see the DOJ focusing on deporting illegal immigrants because artificially (and illegally) increasing the supply in labor without an increase in demand lowers the cost of labor.
The minimum wage should be eliminated and let the market determine a fair price for labor.
Rioting to follow...
If we must have a minimum wage, I’d like to see it correlate to the cost of nearby homes.
Yup, lot’s of stress at our local store.
We had our chance for that and Jay Nixon whiffed (along with his Highway Patrol upper command lapdogs).
I put much of the growth of BLM on this pathetic excuse for a governor. Should have crushed them when they were small.
Now they dictate policy nationwide. (Or attempt to).
The are just the female led branch of the Black Pampers.
Lotta black folk there. Are they smarter there than big dumb whitey.
There is in the City and North County and the race issue is trotted out regularly, particularly by the St. Louis Post Dispatch (Disgrace) who just ran a weeklong article on the East St. Louis Race Riots in 1917.
Just in time for the 4th of July, which got a few folks ginned up about “That’s white man’s Independence Day, ours is Juneteenth” or some such.
St. Louis will become the Midwest Oakland CA because of Ferguson.
Government should NEVER be involved in private sector wages. If unions are in existence, it is up to the labor unions to negotiate wages and / or other benefits. Otherwise, it is the laws of supply and demand that should prevail.
Back in 1959 when I first started work at the car wash the minimum wage was $1.00 which after inflation equates to $8.44 today. Of course we shared tips which amounted to about another $0.75 to $1.00 per hour. I could only work weekends but as a freshman in high school I was very happy with that wage.
That’s what I’m thinking. The excerpt doesn’t state the current St Louis min wage but it’s $10.00/hr.
I don’t know if anyone will lower any existing worker’s wage due to this but I bet they’ll start finding reasons to fire people and then replace them. Pretty big saving 10.00 down to 7.70
eliminate min wage hire more hs kids
What is the Unemployment Rate in St. Louis and what is the Unemployment Rate in Seattle?
My birth home was a mile from Ferguson (1953). We moved to Affton (1956), then Concord Village in 1967 (Lindbergh 1972). The school of 4000 had only one black family. We had a black domestic cleaning our house every two weeks from the 1950s to when my dad died in 1987 (Mattie Gibson). I came to Oregon in 1973 and had little to none interaction with blacks. I have made some dear black friends in recent years, but saw my childhood buddy, who employed mostly blacks in his construction biz in St. Louis, grow bitter. He had lunch at the boarded up Taco Bell with a black man the day after Ferguson burned. Now he won’t send his crew into any area he won’t go.
I’ve been reading the Post almost every day for a few years. My bud hates their brand, but I’ll link some sad crime stories. Yesterday I titled one: dIe 55.
My paternal grandfather came to St Louis from Illinois, a few miles from Lincoln’s parents cabin. My maternal side was in N. St. Louis in the 1860’s. I believe they built the N. Turner Hall. Most of our family is buried at Friedens. If I could get some $ traction, I was dreaming of rebuilding some sort of community outreach. But don’t want to be shot for being white. (My buddy I spoke had a lovely cousin who was a counter makeup girl at Dillard’s West County. She went to a party, and was shot/killed by a pimp who thought she was one of his (1973).
Pardon my verboseness, McCormick (Weston, MO) is to blamed...
I’ll stop with the thought that for symbolism, the elite want the Dred Scott/courthouse was needed for their meme.
I grew up on the Southside of the ‘Lou’, and watched it turn into something I could not recognize in five short years. Streets that I played on, rode bikes with friends on, are now some of the most dangerous (States Streets and Benton Park).
Those days, the local Catholic parishes (especially the ones with large German congregations) would shut down streets on holidays and the party would be on.
I remember when Cherokee street was a big draw as was the Famous and Barr downtown. Now its a multicultural morass that is a well known dropping off point for illegals and the Famous Christmas display is ancient history.
I firmly believe that Ferguson will either dissolve or continue to be an annual focal point for Social Justice Warriors, which reminds me that their annual mecca to West Florissant is almost upon us.
Good days back then, huh? I can’t remember anyone bitching about their wages. Back then, if you didn’t like the pay you didn’t take the job or you quit for a better one. Also, if you did a lousy job you got fired on the spot (I never was) with no one to blame but yourself.
All the self-entitled snowflakes today just sickens me.
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