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Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020
#21702730 - 05/20/15 03:23 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/us/los-angeles-expected-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour.html?_r=0
"The nation's second-largest city voted Tuesday to increase its minimum wage from $9 per hour to $15 an hour by 2020, in which is perhaps the most significant victory so far for labor groups and their allies who are engaged in a national push to raise the minimum wage... almost 50 percent of the city's workforce earns less than $15 an hour"
It will be interesting how this massive hike works out for everyone, time will tell.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: qman]
#21702762 - 05/20/15 03:33 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well, it would now be a good thing foe the city if there was a massive earthquake si it could be submerged under water
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: qman]
#21702780 - 05/20/15 03:38 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah except $15/hour is hardly even enough to survive in LA as is
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Shroomism]
#21702787 - 05/20/15 03:39 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Shroomism said: Yeah except $15/hour is hardly even enough to survive in LA as is 
It's better than $9.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Shroomism]
#21702790 - 05/20/15 03:40 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: Yeah except $15/hour is hardly even enough to survive in LA as is 
Thus the needed increase.
What I despise about ineuality isn't the fact that the rich can accumulate gazillions of dollars. It's the fact that some people can't survive the cost of living.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Shroomism] 1
#21702799 - 05/20/15 03:42 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: Yeah except $15/hour is hardly even enough to survive in LA as is 
Then don't live in LA.
I feel like this is going to screw a lot more people than it helps.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Patlal]
#21702804 - 05/20/15 03:43 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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then by 2020 it will need to be like $20
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grower182 said: I feel like this is going to screw a lot more people than it helps.
How?
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: grower182] 2
#21702810 - 05/20/15 03:44 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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The best thing to make LA more livable would be if people started moving out of LA.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: D.M.T]
#21702825 - 05/20/15 03:48 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Not bad. I had to work construction two or three years to make that much when I started working. I bet a dollar doesn't go far in a huge city.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: qman]
#21702870 - 05/20/15 03:59 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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omg here we go. i bet 80% of businesses will shut down and cheeseburgers will cost $20. And i'm going to rant about how I only make slightly more than that therefore other people should not be allowed a standard of living close to mine because they are stupid and im better than them. /s
glad we got that out of the way.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Nova]
#21702882 - 05/20/15 04:02 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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good now they can raise rent
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Nova]
#21702915 - 05/20/15 04:09 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nova said: omg here we go. i bet 80% of businesses will shut down and cheeseburgers will cost $20. And i'm going to rant about how I only make slightly more than that therefore other people should not be allowed a standard of living close to mine because they are stupid and im better than them. /s
glad we got that out of the way.
Profit margins might be squeezed but life will go on, so be it.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Nova]
#21702939 - 05/20/15 04:17 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Nova said: omg here we go. i bet 80% of businesses will shut down and cheeseburgers will cost $20. And i'm going to rant about how I only make slightly more than that therefore other people should not be allowed a standard of living close to mine because they are stupid and im better than them. /s
glad we got that out of the way.
I don't understand where people get this idea from. Raising the minimum wage helps the economy not hurts it.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/02/australias-minimum-wage/
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Shroomism]
#21703985 - 05/20/15 08:12 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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all that picture is saying is that the big mac is 25cents cheaper there
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Shroomism]
#21704003 - 05/20/15 08:16 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Shroomism said:
Quote:
Nova said: omg here we go. i bet 80% of businesses will shut down and cheeseburgers will cost $20. And i'm going to rant about how I only make slightly more than that therefore other people should not be allowed a standard of living close to mine because they are stupid and im better than them. /s
glad we got that out of the way.
I don't understand where people get this idea from. Raising the minimum wage helps the economy not hurts it.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/02/australias-minimum-wage/
Yeah look at In-N-Out. They make far less than McDonald's, start their minimum employees out at $10.50 an hour, give managers 6-figure salaries, and their burgers have always stayed the same price at around $1.50 or $2. Far cheaper than McDonald's, which is a giant corporation.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Crystal G]
#21704021 - 05/20/15 08:21 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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im curious as to how many people that are making 15 an hour will get a raise or not.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: Crystal G]
#21704047 - 05/20/15 08:26 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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The wave of the future...

Tastey kiosk mcburgers
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: rackem]
#21704055 - 05/20/15 08:28 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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rackem said: im curious as to how many people that are making 15 an hour will get a raise or not.
Why would they, they still make the minimum wage requirements.
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: 4runner]
#21704085 - 05/20/15 08:36 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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in some cases the lot porters are going to make as much as the technicians
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Re: Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By 2020 [Re: rackem]
#21704106 - 05/20/15 08:41 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's really up to the business. Here in Oregon the minimum wage goes up every year, but the wage you are working at above that does not.
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