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2014-12-28 Economy

21 states to boost minimum wage in January

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Posted by Fred 2014-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Exponential increase in automation to follow.

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-28 01:18|| 2014-12-28 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 'Way to go progressives - outlawing tiers of jobs for the lowest skilled workers in your states.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2014-12-28 02:12|| 2014-12-28 02:12|| Front Page Top

#3 benefiting more than 3.1 million workers

.....but not for long.

On the upside: Fewer taxpayers should make the IRS's job much easier, less costly [but it won't]. Carbon pollution around 'fast food' establishments will be reduced as they are shuttered and the lines of 'people too lazy to cook' disappear. Computer Kiosk's replaces store clerks as retail stores downsize to [Sears Catalog store style] on-line malls.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-28 04:31|| 2014-12-28 04:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Boost minimum wage & amnesty illegal immigration---do I sense a pattern?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-28 08:43|| 2014-12-28 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Another way of rewarding the mandatory hire of illegals decreed by the Plantation Party.

And those Donk oligarchs of Silicon Valley couldn't be happier.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-28 08:46|| 2014-12-28 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 In related news: Kiosks replacing entry level service workers in 21 states. (Headline likely never to be printed by the complicit media)

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-28 15:29|| 2014-12-28 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 When the low wage earners are replaced by cheaper robots... what then?

Posted by DarthVader 2014-12-28 16:55|| 2014-12-28 16:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Politicians make the productivity you must achieve in order to be employed even less attainable, rejoice peon.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-12-28 17:50|| 2014-12-28 17:50|| Front Page Top

#9 While we are at it, let's require pi equal three, exactly. Much better.

Posted by KBK 2014-12-28 19:49|| 2014-12-28 19:49|| Front Page Top

#10 ...I believe that's covered in the Common Core curriculum of DoE.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-28 21:13|| 2014-12-28 21:13|| Front Page Top

#11 And those Donk oligarchs of Silicon Valley couldn't be happier.

Please use the proper term. Obamagarchs.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-12-28 23:37|| 2014-12-28 23:37|| Front Page Top

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