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[benzdealeror2]

I dont see how ANYONE could live on 9 bucks an hour.

Or 10, 11, 12....

Unless you're a single kid just out of high school, even people making 12 bucks an hour are on welfare, arent they?

If they have kids, they have to be on some kind of assistance.

[StephanieVanbryce]

House Republicans Vote Down Increase In Minimum Wage

By Annie-Rose Strasser on Mar 15, 2013 at 4:22 pm

....but of course they did ..;)

House Republicans on Friday unanimously voted down a bill that would have raised the minimum wage. Six Democrats joined them in defeating the effort.

The vote came after a surprise move by Democrats, who tacked onto a jobs training program bill an amendment that would have brought the national $7.25 minimum wage to $10.10 by 2015. But Republicans managed to defeat the effort while approving the bill overall.

A few weeks back, House Minority Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) came out in support raising minimum wage, responding President Obama’s State of the Union call for a wage increase. Pelosi’s effort, and the effort proposed Friday, would actually bring the minimum wage up higher than Obama’s suggestion of $9.

If the minimum wage were brought up to $10.10 an hour, it would not be a revolutionary hike; rather, it would be indexed to inflation and consistent with historical borrowing power. Had the minimum wage been indexed to inflation in 1968, it would be $10.40.

Links
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/03/15/1729201/republicans-reject-minimum-wage/

[chloebware]

Most people on the dole would rather have a job with a livable wage. "

Don't think so Chief...... We have generational poverty now......50 years of living off the Dole.