Andrew Cuomo, the governor of NY, wants to raise the states minimum wage to $10.50 an hour.
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[QUOTE]Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed new minimum wages for New York State and New York City to combat the widening wage gap.
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Move over, Washington state. The U.S. may soon have a new minimum wage king.
During his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo formally proposed raising the state’s minimum wage by the end of 2016 from its current $8.75 per hour level to $10.50, a figure that would give the Empire State the highest statewide minimum wage in the nation, moving past Washington’s $9.47 hourly rate. Cuomo also announced a new $11.50 minimum wage for New York City, accounting for the city’s high cost of living.
“The minimum wage is very simple,” Cuomo said on Wednesday. “We believe if you work full-time you should be able to pay the rent and pay for food and not live in poverty. That’s the basic promise of employment, and we’re not there yet,” he said.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://time.com/3677679/minimum-wage-raise-proposal/[/url]
Well would you look at that, he is being slightly useful for once.
Well he had to do something not horrible eventually.
That may sound like a lot, but a living wage is a decent chunk of money. [i]Especially[/i] in New York, where the cost of living is six kinds of ridiculous.
[QUOTE=TestECull;46988561]That may sound like a lot, but a living wage is a decent chunk of money. [i]Especially[/i] in New York, where the cost of living is six kinds of ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
That's what I was thinking. Upstate is probably different, but nobody can live in NYC on $10 an hour.
The best thing about raising the minimum wage is that everyone likes it.
[QUOTE=Buck.;46988699]The best thing about raising the minimum wage is that everyone likes it.[/QUOTE]
Heh.
As of 2015 I now make $8.75 instead of $8.00. I live in upstate NY and I believe it's going up next year too.
Didn't he also propose to bring high speed internet to the whole state in his speech thing too?
Who is this man and what has he done with the real Andrew Cuomo.
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