Yes, and decimate small businesses and kill off the middle class in the process. What do you think is going to happen to food costs, etc
The cost of living in Hawaiʻi has far outpaced what the minimum wage can afford. We need to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Historically the economy has always improved when wages went up. If the serfs have money to spend it'll get spent.
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We also need to put Congress on Obamacare...
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No one seems to ask why the cost of living is rising so quickly.... Just want to hack away at the symptoms, not the cause.
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Real wages especially for low income people have gone down much more than officially recognized.
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No bad idea...this will lead to businesses closing and huge uptick in unemployment...take an economics class
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sounds like an issue for your State Government not the Federal Government!
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If you're making less than $15/hr you're not paying federal income tax.
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How about ago allowing foreigners to build outrageous condominiums and buying up all the land..... for starters
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Economics much?
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Living wage, annual adjustments and a maximum wage cap.
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Unfortunate this needs b begged as end result of crooked thieving corps imprisoning & robbing ppl of Kingdom of Hawaii of their queen n 1893
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Perhaps Hawaii should up their minimum wage? It really doesn't make sense to have a national one with the huge diff in cost of living
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Why not raise Hawai’i minimum wage to $15 an hour first? If it works maybe then we can talk about Federal..
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Study by university of Washington here in Seattle found that #$15 hurt the lowest earners' bottom lines. Thoughts?
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