Author Topic: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage  (Read 4814 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline txradioguy

  • Minister of Propaganda
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18686
  • Reputation: +1291/-1116
  • Rule 39
Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« on: July 23, 2015, 08:21:21 AM »
Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law is supposed to lift workers out of poverty and move them off public assistance. But there may be a hitch in the plan.

Evidence is surfacing that some workers are asking their bosses for fewer hours as their wages rise – in a bid to keep overall income down so they don’t lose public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent.

Full Life Care, a home nursing nonprofit, told KIRO-TV in Seattle that several workers want to work less.

“If they cut down their hours to stay on those subsidies because the $15 per hour minimum wage didn’t actually help get them out of poverty, all you’ve done is put a burden on the business and given false hope to a lot of people,” said Jason Rantz, host of the Jason Rantz show on 97.3 KIRO-FM.

The twist is just one apparent side effect of the controversial -- yet trendsetting -- minimum wage law in Seattle, which is being copied in several other cities despite concerns over prices rising and businesses struggling to keep up.

The notion that employees are intentionally working less to preserve their welfare has been a hot topic on talk radio. While the claims are difficult to track, state stats indeed suggest few are moving off welfare programs under the new wage.

Despite a booming economy throughout western Washington, the state’s welfare caseload has dropped very little since the higher wage phase began in Seattle in April. In March 130,851 people were enrolled in the Basic Food program. In April, the caseload dropped to 130,376.

At the same time, prices appear to be going up on just about everything.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/22/seattle-sees-fallout-from-15-minimum-wage-as-other-cities-follow-suit/
The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil.

Creator of the largest Fight Club thread ever!

http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=83285.0

Offline RayRaytheSBS

  • "There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1195
  • Reputation: +200/-13
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2015, 09:02:33 AM »
Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law is supposed to lift workers out of poverty and move them off public assistance. But there may be a hitch in the plan.

Evidence is surfacing that some workers are asking their bosses for fewer hours as their wages rise – in a bid to keep overall income down so they don’t lose public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent.

Full Life Care, a home nursing nonprofit, told KIRO-TV in Seattle that several workers want to work less.

“If they cut down their hours to stay on those subsidies because the $15 per hour minimum wage didn’t actually help get them out of poverty, all you’ve done is put a burden on the business and given false hope to a lot of people,” said Jason Rantz, host of the Jason Rantz show on 97.3 KIRO-FM.

The twist is just one apparent side effect of the controversial -- yet trendsetting -- minimum wage law in Seattle, which is being copied in several other cities despite concerns over prices rising and businesses struggling to keep up.

The notion that employees are intentionally working less to preserve their welfare has been a hot topic on talk radio. While the claims are difficult to track, state stats indeed suggest few are moving off welfare programs under the new wage.

Despite a booming economy throughout western Washington, the state’s welfare caseload has dropped very little since the higher wage phase began in Seattle in April. In March 130,851 people were enrolled in the Basic Food program. In April, the caseload dropped to 130,376.

At the same time, prices appear to be going up on just about everything.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/22/seattle-sees-fallout-from-15-minimum-wage-as-other-cities-follow-suit/

We told them, but did they listen? Nope. I have ZERO @#$%s to give for the DUches and hippies in Seattle that voted for this. The only thing I hope that comes from this is LESS idiots try this.
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Offline txradioguy

  • Minister of Propaganda
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18686
  • Reputation: +1291/-1116
  • Rule 39
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2015, 09:21:48 AM »
We told them, but did they listen? Nope. I have ZERO @#$%s to give for the DUches and hippies in Seattle that voted for this. The only thing I hope that comes from this is LESS idiots try this.

Other left coast Liberal hell holes aren't paying any heed to what's happening in Seattle.  LA just raised their minimum wage to $15 as well.  NYC is about to.

Sad thing is...I know that some way...some how...Libtards will come up with a scheme to raise the minimum wage AND keep these leeches on the government tit.
The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil.

Creator of the largest Fight Club thread ever!

http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=83285.0

Offline RayRaytheSBS

  • "There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1195
  • Reputation: +200/-13
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2015, 09:29:14 AM »
Other left coast Liberal hell holes aren't paying any heed to what's happening in Seattle.  LA just raised their minimum wage to $15 as well.  NYC is about to.

Sad thing is...I know that some way...some how...Libtards will come up with a scheme to raise the minimum wage AND keep these leeches on the government tit.

I can see it happening too.. when is the 'big one' going to take care of the left coast for us?
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Offline DLR Pyro

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9234
  • Reputation: +1418/-29
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2015, 10:05:56 AM »
you can't have it both ways DUmmies
:ownit:
Biden is an illegitimate President.  Change my mind.

Police lives matter.

Basking in the glow of my white privilege

ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-09-11 08:50 PM
64.I'd almost be willing to get a job in order to participate in
A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE
  https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4763020

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1659/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2015, 01:38:31 PM »
So the dishonest term is living wage.
The honest term is leeching wage.
The libs are really good at that dishonest term skill.
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2015, 03:11:45 PM »
So what now?....raise it to $30?
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1659/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2015, 03:51:32 PM »
So what now?....raise it to $30?

Why stop there you evil capitalistic pig 1%er rethuglican neanderthal ??
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline Crazy Horse

  • Army 0 Navy 34
  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5585
  • Reputation: +250/-143
  • Sex, Booze and Bacon Minion
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2015, 04:56:00 PM »
Why stop there you evil capitalistic pig 1%er rethuglican neanderthal ??

You forgot bigoted and racists.  Could add southern white bumpkin trash misogynist.
You got off your ass, now get your wife off her back.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2015, 04:59:57 PM »
You forgot bigoted and racists.  Could add southern white bumpkin trash misogynist.
Don't forget "Rebel".
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline Boudicca

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5162
  • Reputation: +413/-61
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2015, 07:44:01 PM »
Other left coast Liberal hell holes aren't paying any heed to what's happening in Seattle.  LA just raised their minimum wage to $15 as well.  NYC is about to.

Sad thing is...I know that some way...some how...Libtards will come up with a scheme to raise the minimum wage AND keep these leeches on the government tit.

AND the libtards will undoubtably manage to foist the toxic fallout of their stupid $15 per hour wage to the dumbshit RINOs, who can't buy a clue from their own base and, I dunno, FIGHT BACK.  Damn, no wonder Trump is ahead, and surging, in the polls.  Thank God we have him, Cruz and some others in the contest who own a backbone. :cheersmate:
Sneaking into a country doesn't make you an immigrant any
more than breaking into someone's house makes you part of the family.
(Poster bolky from thehill.com blog discussion)

Offline Ptarmigan

  • Bunny Slayer
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23821
  • Reputation: +956/-226
  • God Hates Bunnies
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2015, 09:42:30 PM »
:ownit:

Australia has high minimum wage because they have strict immigration laws.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Allow enemies their space to hate; they will destroy themselves in the process.
-Lisa Du

Offline Crazy Horse

  • Army 0 Navy 34
  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5585
  • Reputation: +250/-143
  • Sex, Booze and Bacon Minion
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2015, 10:27:27 PM »
Don't forget "Rebel".

I knew I forgot something   :banghead:
You got off your ass, now get your wife off her back.

Offline Boudicca

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5162
  • Reputation: +413/-61
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2015, 10:33:23 PM »
:ownit:

Australia has high minimum wage because they have strict immigration laws.

DH and I were in Vegas last year for our 30th.  Ran into this Australian couple in the elevator at the Paris.  Subject of illegals came up and she was bemoaning the fact that their government put "immigrants" behind fences before shipping them back.  Told her I wished our President had half a ball, let alone a set, so that we could put a stop to the illegal criminal tide.  Illegal=criminal just for crossing without documentation.  They left looking like a pair of scalded cats, or like Obama acolytes.  DH asked me, rather plaintively, if I could please quit bringing up politics.  To which I said, certainly, right at the same time the world has a whole lot less  :mental:
Sneaking into a country doesn't make you an immigrant any
more than breaking into someone's house makes you part of the family.
(Poster bolky from thehill.com blog discussion)

Offline Lacarnut

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4154
  • Reputation: +316/-315
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2015, 11:56:39 PM »
The unions want their workers to be exempt from this increase. The union heads are not stupid; they know that there will be cutbacks resulting in the loss of employees.  Bye, bye dues. 

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage
« Reply #15 on: July 24, 2015, 06:07:07 AM »
The unions want their workers to be exempt from this increase. The union heads are not stupid; they know that there will be cutbacks resulting in the loss of employees.  Bye, bye dues.
Once they get a 'living wage' and all the benefits they want....who needs a union?
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin