Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts

Friday, December 15, 2017

$15 minimum wage to cost California 400K jobs: Study

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Friday, November 17, 2017

UC system fails to follow its own minimum wage policies


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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Researchers hired by Seattle to study the effects of raising the minimum wage to $15 were fired after they reported the policy cost 5,000 jobs and harmed the poor.

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Thursday, July 6, 2017

The revenge of economics 101. Missouri is set to REDUCE St. Louis' job killing minimum wage from $10 to $7.70:

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Saturday, March 25, 2017

The Real Calexit: Californians leaving for lower-cost locales



Activists agitating for California to separate from the United States better start considering the border wall they’ll need to build if successful — to keep their residents in.

An analysis of Census Bureau data by the Sacramento Bee shows that between 2005 and 2015 800,000 working-class Californians on net left for other states. Twenty percent of this net working-class outflow — 156,000 — went to one state in particular: Texas. Meanwhile, new data from the Census Bureau show that six of the 10 fastest-growing counties in the United States are in Texas or Utah; none are in California.

What’s driving this exodus? For decades California has championed policies that supposedly make it a working-class Mecca. For instance, its forthcoming $15 minimum wage — or $30,000 a year full-time — will put even starting employees roughly at the U.S. median personal income level. Texas, on the other hand, does not have the supposedly helpful social programs of California, and its minimum wage is less than half California’s coming standard.

And yet employees are happily leaving for Texas — not to mention Utah and Nevada — because they’d rather have the economic opportunity and affordable cost of living they can’t find in California. The reality is that California’s dramatic minimum wage increase to $15 as well as other workplace regulations are forcing some small businesses and their employees to states like Texas. In these states, their business model is encouraged and their employment is welcomed.

For example, Competitive Edge, a communications firm in San Diego, moved its entire call center operations consisting of 75 jobs to El Paso Texas last year as a result of California’s minimum wage costs. “My employees who will move over there will get a 50 percent pay raise in a sense, because cost of living is lower there,” said Chief Executive John Nienstedt.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

CA businesses flee to Las Vegas as a result of minimum wage hike; Restaurants add minimum wage hike surcharge



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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Washington’s Minimum Wage Increase Causes Spike in Childcare Costs

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Saturday, August 6, 2016

High taxes, high minimum wage, and low purchasing power are all main contributors to exodus of jobs from California.



Could it be that rather than voting their desires to cling to "guns and religion," to quote President Obama, that Americans in the southeast and mid-west are actually voting to preserve a higher standard of life that doesn't require them to spend $2mm on an 800 square foot apartment?

...Turns out you really do get what you vote for.

For those who would like to review the full study, which the author summarizes as "California's Forty Year Legacy of Hostility to Business," by Spectrum Location Solutions, it can be at the link (Click on link in Tweet above).
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Friday, June 10, 2016

While small businesses are struggling to cope with the recent 50% hike to the state minimum wage, public employee unions are seeking a 22% raise on top of that.

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Friday, May 20, 2016

Potential cost of California minimum wage? 900,000 (mostly millennial) jobs

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Non-profits: The unseen victims of new minimum wage laws

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Saturday, April 16, 2016

California minimum wage hike hits L.A. apparel industry: 'The exodus has begun'











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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Poverty caused by lack of work, not low wages- so why is CA increasing cost to employ poor by 50%?





















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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Bernie Sanders DEMANDS $15 minimum wage – PAYS interns $12...







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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Hillary Doesn't Like Unpaid Internships, but Clinton Foundation Sure Does

◼ The charity spent $30 million on salaries last year but not one cent on interns, unlike the Ford or Gates Foundations. What gives? - Daily Beast

Hillary Clinton may be running for president as a champion for the middle class, but the Clinton Foundation’s interns do not get paid.

“Businesses have taken advantage of unpaid internships to an extent that it is blocking the opportunities for young people to move on into paid employment,” Clinton said at UCLA in 2013. “More businesses need to move their so-called interns to employees.”

That doesn’t happen at her own business, the Clinton Foundation that Bill started in 2001.

“The Clinton Foundation makes no promises or commitments of employment after the internship,” the Foundation says on its website. “No intern is entitled to a job at the conclusion of his/her internship experience.”

The foundation goes through about 100 interns each summer, with slightly less during the school year. Summer interns volunteer 30 to 40 hours a week, while interns who work during a college semester may work 25 hours. The most some interns receive is a $2,000 stipend for a four-month period, and that depends on financial need.

Paying them all New York’s minimum wage of $8.75, for instance, would cost a fraction of the foundation’s budget...

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

There is little, if any, evidence for widespread discrimination in wages and employment based on gender in the U.S.



  1. Is there a wage gap between men and women?
  2. Which factors explain the wage gap?
  3. Should the federal government do something to correct the wage gap?


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Thursday, April 2, 2015

SEIU spent $23 million on minimum wage campaign in 2014

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Friday, March 20, 2015

Seattle’s $15 Min. Wage Is Making Something Happen That City Leaders Never Expected

◼ EAs the April 1 deadline approaches, the residents of Seattle will have a front row seat to the effects of the $15 per hour minimum wage, but early indicators suggest it will not be as positive as City Hall intended. - Western Journalism

Earlier this month, Seattle Magazine asked, Why Are So Many Seattle Restaurants Closing Lately?

The magazine went on to report that one “major factor affecting restaurant futures in our city is the impending minimum wage hike.” Anthony Anton, president and CEO of Washington Restaurant Association, told the magazine, “It’s not a political problem; it’s a math problem.” He estimates that restaurants usually have a budget breakdown of about 36 percent for labor, 30 percent for food costs, and 30 percent to cover other operational costs. That leaves 4 percent for a profit margin. When labor costs shoot up to say 42 percent, something has to give.
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Monday, March 16, 2015

Why Are So Many Seattle Restaurants Closing Lately?

◼ Restaurants in Seattle Going Dark as $15 an Hour Minimum Wage Looms - RICK MORAN/PJMEDIA
By decoupling the value of labor from the real world of supply and demand, the consequences are a reduction in the overall value of labor and the forced increase in prices that will lessen demand. If your electric, gas, water, phone, and other overhead costs go up 35%, you are going to be forced to raise prices on your products, and reduce your workforce numerically as well as the number of hours worked per employee. Why would an increase of that magnitude in labor costs not result in the same outcome?




◼ Last month—and particularly last week— Seattle foodies were downcast as the blows kept coming: - Seattle Mag

Queen Anne’s Grub closed February 15. Pioneer Square’s Little Uncle shut down February 25. Shanik’s Meeru Dhalwala announced that it will close March 21. Renée Erickson’s Boat Street Café will shutter May 30 after 17 years with her at the helm (though, praise be, original owner Susan Kaplan will expand her neighboring Boat Street Kitchen into the space and continue serving the Boat Street paté, the amaretto bread pudding with butter rum cream sauce and other favorites).

Furthermore, less than a week after he was named a James Beard Semifinalist (Best Chef: Northwest) for his work at northern Italian restaurant Spinasse, Jason Stratton announced he would be stepping down from that restaurant and his others—Artusi and Vespolina—immediately to head to Spain.

What the #*%&$* is going on? A variety of things, probably—and a good chance there is more change to come....

Though none of our local departing/transitioning restaurateurs who announced their plans last month have elaborated on the issue, another major factor affecting restaurant futures in our city is the impending minimum wage hike to $15 per hour. Starting April 1, all businesses must begin to phase in the wage increase: Small employers have seven years to pay all employees at least $15 hourly; large employers (with 500 or more employees) have three.

Since the legislation was announced last summer, The Seattle Times and Eater have reported extensively on restaurant owners’ many concerns about how to compensate for the extra funds that will now be required for labor: They may need to raise menu prices, source poorer ingredients, reduce operating hours, reduce their labor and/or more.

Washington Restaurant Association's Anton puts it this way: “It’s not a political problem; it’s a math problem.”

He estimates that a common budget breakdown among sustaining Seattle restaurants so far has been the following: 36 percent of funds are devoted to labor, 30 percent to food costs and 30 percent go to everything else (all other operational costs). The remaining 4 percent has been the profit margin, and as a result, in a $700,000 restaurant, he estimates that the average restauranteur in Seattle has been making $28,000 a year.

With the minimum wage spike, however, he says that if restaurant owners made no changes, the labor cost in quick service restaurants would rise to 42 percent and in full service restaurants to 47 percent.... KEEP READING



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Sunday, October 26, 2014

So Who Does Create Jobs?

◼ Hillary Clinton, doing her no-bull, forceful leader number, tells an audience: "Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs." - Geoffrey Norman/Weekly Standard

The aggressive tone and inelegant phrasing are meant, one supposes, to convey authenticity, which has never been Mrs. Clinton’s strength as a campaigner. No news there.

But what of the content – such as it is – of the remark? Mrs. Clinton could be forgiven for thinking that corporations and businesses exist solely to provide big paydays for politically connected guest speakers. But then, who does create jobs in the Clinton universe? If, that is, any jobs are being created.

Well, maybe she should look to Texas....
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