Will Obama Fight to Raise Minimum Wage?

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Just my opinion, but I feel that Minimum wage should be a state issue.

I thought that the federal minimum wage would only apply to government employees, isn't this so? The article is quite unclear about this.

I agree that the mw should be a state issue, just because there are enormous differences regarding the costs of living in the different states - same as here.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The minimum wage goes up. Evil big corporations like fast food joints can't afford to pay the help. To make it work they have to raise their prices. People at minimum-wage jobs can't afford the new prices. The minimum wage needs to be raised again.

And it's all the fault of the Evil Corporations, and the GOP. I guess we all need someone to blame.

The mw is one of the work laws where the USA is ahead of Germany, we have none - which is a shame!
Regarding this, the fast food joints can cry me a river. The fast food prices in the US are insanely low. As long as it is much cheaper to eat outside than to cook at home there are somewhere sub par standards, mostly in the quality of food or that some employees get the short end of the stick - and they are not even allowed to be tipped in many joints.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Penguin

I thought that the federal minimum wage would only apply to government employees, isn't this so? The article is quite unclear about this.

There are Federal and State minimum wage laws in most states (5 states do not have a state minimum wage law)

"Where Federal and state law have different minimum wage rates, the higher standard applies."

http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm