intocable7
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Bronx, NY | Not another HIKE!
Perhaps may be the only positive hike. as of jan 1,2005 the minimum wage in new york will be $6.00. THATS GOOD NEWS. |
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| It's a mixed blessing. Raising the minimum wage gives companies more incentive to hire illegal immigrants, pay off the books, and ship jobs out. Costs also rise.
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Higher minimum wage means more money for workers but I think there could be more cons than pros to this. With the higher minimum wage, fewer companies will be willing to hire and many of the employees they have at the bottom rung may be let go, as companies will not be able to pay them. Also, fewer workers around will probably mean they will make existing workers work harder for their extra money. Not much we can do...it's a lose-lose situation either way.
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Link: »NYS Raising Bar On Minimum Wage
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The legislation also provides for a proportional increase in the hourly minimum wage, from the current $3.30 to $4.60, for workers like most waitresses and bartenders who are eligible for tips.
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Raiseing minimum wage will give the city more money from taxes.
Also maybe more people will try and get a job now....i mean its not much more than before but ya never know. |
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| said by ironwalker  :Raiseing minimum wage will give the city more money from taxes. Also maybe more people will try and get a job now....i mean its not much more than before but ya never know. More taxes from the ones that keep their jobs. What about all the people that get canned because of the raise in minimum? It could balance out, or maybe even less taxes come in.
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Thats not such a bad thing my friends, myself as a student i am not subjected to such high taxes as yet, so the increase to $6 is a good thing from 5.15 that i currently get.
So effective Jan 1st eh? |
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| said by MEDIAN2k3 :Thats not such a bad thing my friends, myself as a student i am not subjected to such high taxes as yet, so the increase to $6 is a good thing from 5.15 that i currently get. So effective Jan 1st eh? LOL, I forsee a major shock when someone hits the real world.
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hey i knoe that taxes are bad (i do have friends that have jobs outside of school lol), but for now well a nice lil increase in pay for what i do would be a WELCOMED experience. I just filled for student loans for college for febs term and i gotta start savin up lol. |
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intocable7
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Bronx, NY | im for the raise. shit its been 5 freaking years since we had a minimum wage raise. NY has one of the lowest minimum wage in the country. |
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I thought minimum wage was a national thing? It's the same in CT as it is in NY.
EDIT: My bad. The states have the right to set their minimum wage. The vast majority of states are at the federal level, including New York. |
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Bronx, NY | nah CT got 7.15. kansas has $2.65 lol damn |
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1 edit | said by intocable7 :nah CT got 7.15. kansas has $2.65 lol damn Nope. Dept. of Labor:
»www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/q-a.htm
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Where an employee is subject to both the state and federal minimum wage laws, the employee is entitled to higher of the two minimum wages. There is federally mandated min wage, $5.15, after which states can choose to go higher. Fed Min goes a lot further in Kansas than it does in NY. Sorry, to everybody who thinks it is a disaster, but there needs to be some kind of weighting based on the local economy.
Sheesh, even FL gets 6.15/Hr.
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Just remember, New York includes a lot more than just New York City and Long Island. Up by Watertown, you can get a pretty nice 2 bedroom apartment for 400 a month.
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And at 5.15/hour its almost affordable, but more than two weeks take home for one month's rent still at that rate 
But the commute is going to be a killer. Lake Erie ought to be pretty though!
I'm for a weighting, but I don't think upstaters would take it well if downstaters near NY made more 
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yeah the commute would suck but heck 400 a month i could afford to fly back and forth to work. lol! |
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You'd have to have some amazing binoculars to see Lake Erie from Watertown... (I think you meant Lake ONTARIO!) LOL Actually, I'm one County North of where Watertown is, and Watertown is EXPENSIVE, being the nearest "city". Here in Massena, NY, on the St. Lawrence River, we rent a nice 2BR house with a big yard in a nice neighborhood, for $550./mo. |
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| said by PCInTech :St. Lawrence River, we rent a nice 2BR house with a big yard in a nice neighborhood, for $550./mo. OMG. That's what monthly parking will cost in Manhattan (I don't know, 4 x 10?)
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| said by atangel :OMG. That's what monthly parking will cost in Manhattan (I don't know, 4 x 10?) However, unemployment is extremely high, and what few jobs there are, are strictly minimum wage... unless you're lucky enough to work in one of the major factories, but that's only about 10% of the available jobs. (And, you have to wait for someone to die for an opening.) On the positive side, it's CHEAP to live here, real cheap. How much do they get down there for a beer in a neighborhood tavern? |
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said by PCInTech :You'd have to have some amazing binoculars to see Lake Erie from Watertown... (I think you meant Lake ONTARIO!) LOL Actually, I'm one County North of where Watertown is, and Watertown is EXPENSIVE, being the nearest "city". Here in Massena, NY, on the St. Lawrence River, we rent a nice 2BR house with a big yard in a nice neighborhood, for $550./mo. Here in the big ol' city, when we say Watertown, we mean the upper third of New York State
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