I remember my fairly conservative econ professor talking about doing that almost 20 years ago. Yet here we are. It would be a huge step forward for those municipal level changes to start spreading to higher levels of government.
Is there a cost analysis (cost of living) between two states, say with $10/hr as minimum wage vs another state nearby with $15/hr? For example Ohio vs Rhode Island or New Jersey. Now I’m curious since apparently increasing minimum wage doesn’t impact any costs.
If actual wages increase, of course costs are crease, plus higher minimum wages tend to be in higher cost of living states. However the cost increase is very minor compare to the wage increase
Basically, each minimum wage slave flips many burgers. So doubling the pay, increases the cost of your burger by pennies. I vaguely remember an article about California’s wage increase that calculated 25¢ increase of burger cost
Last I checked Buffalo isn’t bad compared to comparable cities in Ohio. For comparison though, the floor is the fucking floor. Appalachia remains in apocalyptic straits whether you’re in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or West Virginia. If you’re in Appalachia you’re in a city, a town that’s barely holding on, or desperate poverty.
Is it so low that it is effectively ignored and employers even for the lowest jobs offer a higher wage to get workers or are a large portion of PA workers actually only receiving what is effectively below federal poverty wages on a regular basis?
I’m from Kentucky where it’s the same and they generally reserve the $7.25 hourly wage for the most vulnerable people with few options like 16 year olds getting their first job or immigrants.
When I was in high school washing dishes for $7.25 an hour the justification is that it’s something everyone should go through to “build character”, by which they mean the Protestant work ethic.
And what sucks for employers near the borders of PA (aka “Civilization”) is that they are competing for employees with states that have higher wages, and with competitors in Pennsyltucky who are allowed to pay slave wages.
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