New York State Assembly passes $9 minimum wage
Source: AP
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's Assembly has voted to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour with automatic increases tied to inflation, putting pressure on Senate's Republicans who are seeking business tax cuts in a potential legislative deal.
The Assembly passed the bill 101-44 after four hours of debate Tuesday night. The bill now goes to the Senate.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate majority leaders are negotiating behind closed doors.
The minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour. Among the proposals being floated by legislative leaders is raising the wage to $8.50, then $8.75, then $9 over two or three years.
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upaloopa
(11,417 posts)squeezed the rest of the county we could push all the conservatives out
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)appleannie1
(5,067 posts)bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)to the point of promoting a balanced and liveable minimum wage in the various areas.
Not that I'm saying $9 an hour is too much anywhere, but rather the opposite - in a cheap-cost-of-living area it might be just adequate as a starting wage, but there are plenty of places where there's a lot of people, a lot of competition for jobs, and no humane way to get by on $9 an hour.
Doc Holliday
(719 posts)for five of the longest years ofmy life, crammed up against the border with Quebec and making some seriously shitty money working for a Quebec-owned multinational that had some of its operations in rural upstate NY...cheap labor, dontchaknow.... I was pulling down a whopping $23k as an office manager. Guys down in Albany were making $9.00/hr. working at Wendy's...this was in the late 90s.
roxy1234
(117 posts)Like a $7:25 in a midwest state? What is the average rate for a one bedroom in NY? Oh well, welcome NYers to the minimum wage, it took you guys a while but you made it
Angleae
(4,487 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)roxy1234
(117 posts)So whats the minimum wage like in NY city? I bet it was already $9 plus before this
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)(then adjusted annually with the Consumer Price Index), since the cost of living here is much higher than the rest of the state.
Albany would have to pass it though.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)in Orange County thats not ghetto or section 8 area. The average is $730 a month, after 2 weekly checks of 360.00 minus taxes...its still not much.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)It's better than nothing; and still outpaces the national average.
Small gains beat squat.
Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)Honestly, how hard is it to hold the pickles? Now Instead of high school kids, we'll be able to employ graduates with these higher wages.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)...The Republicans control the chamber, but with the support of an "Independent Democratic caucus" which has demanded a vote on minimum wage increase.