Seattle is already $15. How is $11.50 acceptable for NYC?

....critters in both houses that are called "republicans".

On the other hand, being a native New Yorker who visits frequently, I don't see how anyone can survive in New York on $460 a week (or even $600 a week in Seattle)

Back in high school I was working part time in a department store on weekends. My first raise ever was when the minimum wage went from $1.15 an hour to $1.25 an hour.

Back when I started working in the late 70s, was $5 something in Illinois. $3 in all those decades is nothing.

Minimum wage is supposed to be a living wage. Whole reason for it was so people could survive. I think they should have a law that no one in a company can make more than 10x anyone else in a company, including bonuses and other incentives. And still have a minimum of at least $20 pee hour.

Someone is working on a critter spray. Problem is making it non toxic

and this is in a urban center in the northeast. And I barely get by

. . . $11.50 an hour is laughable.

Here's the way I think the issue should be framed for Republicans: if you want to reduce the appeal of people earning money via illicit activities, the first thing you must do is make it possible to make a living via licit employment.

Isn't that ridiculous? When I was getting benefits briefly in late 2001, it was $405, and that was a joke even then.

Where's Yoda when ya need him?

"An empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples (ethnic groups) united and ruled by a central authority, either by a monarch (emperor, empress) or an oligarchy. The term empire is derived from the Latin term imperium (a rule, a command; authority, control, power; supreme power, sole dominion; military authority; a dominion, realm) from imperare (to command)" (Source Wikipedia)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026097412

I personally think it's a tacky slogan and preferred the "I Love" and "Big Apple"

.....upon the type of business and will continue up gradually to $15 for some businesses in 2017 and all businesses in 2021.

Obviously didn't read all that. Still, compared to NYC, it's a much better minimum wage.

The $15.00 wage will be phased in, assuming powerful interests don't manage to have it overturned.
Corporations that employ more than 500 workers will have to pay $15 an hour by 2017 if their employees don’t receive company-paid health care. Smaller businesses can wait until 2019 to reach the higher rate. All workers will receive the wage by 2021.

But proposing $11.50 as a goal? Thanks very little.

As my cousin pays about $2,500 a month for rent in Manhattan, while I pay $200 a month upstate.

Rent and school taxes are killers.

Yay, us!

What's the point?