Update: House Panel Blocks Bill to Raise Minimum Wage

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Update: House Panel Blocks Bill to Raise Minimum Wage

A push to raise the state minimum wage suffered a setback in the Arkansas House on Tuesday.

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1gmama - 3/5/2013 2:31 PM

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Yeap, force them to have babies, and not able to get a job with a living salary to take of them. Yeap makes a lot of sense to me. NOT!!!!!!!

jwLonokeCo - 3/5/2013 2:18 PM

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Ten workers at 6.25 is 62.50/hr times 8 hrs/day = 500 dollars/day for payroll – 2, 500 for a 5 day week. At 8.25/hr, that's 660/day and 3,300/wk. That 16 dollars/day more per employee. Where does that come from? Raise the prices in the store, and we all pay more, buy less, or buy elsewhere, so eventually the store closes due to dwindling income. In order to maintain the same payroll and not raise prices, two people would have to lose their jobs. 8 times 8.25 = 66/hr, 528/day, 2,640/wk. Minimum wage sounds good in theory, but doesn't really help.

hawk1972 - 3/5/2013 2:14 PM

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yea let's pay all of them 6.25 and hour for the rest of this yea and see if they can pay everything they have to pay making that

Mikerthebiker - 3/5/2013 1:42 PM

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I would bet that they vote themselves a raise too! Remember you lying theives, we pay your salary!

mikesmothers - 3/5/2013 1:03 PM

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Wonder how many of these money grubbing politicians are being bought off by businesses to vote against and stop anyone from trying to help the low income? How many of you politicians are business owners that want to keep people under your thumb by paying them not even enough to get by? DIRT BAGS

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