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The Minimum Wage is Not a Living Wage

Minimum wages in four New England states are heading up on January 1st.

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Once enacted, Cuomo’s $15 minimum wage will nearly certainly affect the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers as well, and apparently, with 2016’s pay bump in a few days, the lobby group is freaked out. California and MA will become the first two states in the country to mandate a $10 minimum wage, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).


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Early next year, the council will consider a proposal to hire a contractor to work with the city on minimum and prevailing wage compliance.


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Out of Connecticut’s workforce of 1.7 million people, it is estimated that there are now 70,000 to 90,000 workers who earn the minimum wage. Your minimum compensation is the sum of your wage, your tips, and the cost to your employer of providing healthcare benefits. The minimum wage is far from covering the worker’s needs, especially if they have children.

Minimum wage earners in Chicago, however, will have a bit of an advantage over other parts of IL since Chicago raised its minimum wage to $10 per hour in July, but costs are also slightly higher in the city and the wage is still less than the calculated living wage.

However, she says actually getting by on the minimum wage, even after these increases, is almost impossible.

It is unclear how many workers in the state will be affected by the change. At one job, she has worked for the same employer for more than 20 years and never received a cent above the minimum wage until AB 10 took effect.

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“I suspect that working Vermonters will see this as a welcome increase, but we see this as $9.60 is not enough to support a family”, Brunner said. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has repeatedly called for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. It is the least we can do for the lowest-paid workers in a state that has the highest wealth equality gap in the nation.

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