Minimum wage to raise again

When you raise wages, prices go up too. It's a vicious cycle. I don't think raising the minimum wage is the answer. Getting the cost of living back down makes more sense to me. I keep seeing news report after report about how everyone is struggling financially and are more in debt. I know it has to be even tougher for someone only making minimum wage.

well minimum wage were i live is only 5.15 hour so for me it would be a good thing if it goes up but also bad cause i feel prices on everything else will also go up just incase u you are wondering iam in kentucky

Yes, I think it is. People who have minimum wage jobs will be making more, but everyone will be paying more for the goods and services where those people work. Small businesses are the ones who usually suffer, and many times they even lay off some employees. Sure hope this doesn't happen to you.

minimum wage is $5.15 in maryland and pennsylvania to my knowledge (unless they've changed in the past few months), which i think is absolutely ridiculous. i know that the higher minimum wage might hurt small businesses and families that use childcare but, honestly, if you are well enough off to pay for childcare, then i dont think you should worry too much. how can you expect anyone to live off minimum wage? poverty line in the US is $17,000 a year i think...if someone works full time at minimum wage in MD or PA, they will only get paid $206 BEFORE taxes...let's say they receive $150 a week after taxes..that's $600 a month and only $7200 a year. nobody can live off of wages like that..and not everyone has the skills to get a higher-paying job either. even if they work 2 full time jobs at minimum wage, they will still be under the US poverty line.

When looking at the broader picture, it may very well hurt the low income people. For instance, each year people on SSI gets a raise. But they loose the exact amount in foodstamps. Therefore, they have no extra money. By the same standarads, it could be harder for people to qualify for help now because they are making more and I am not sure if they will change any of the guidelines of what you can and can't make to be eligible for certain programs. Some of these reasons are why some of the people in government opposed the raise. It is like this. When you are poor or even middle class you are always looking at what is called a catch 22. What seems good at first, can have negative outcomes you didn't foresee in the first place. That is why it is hard for honest, middle and lower class people to get ahead at times. But what can we do, but try to work as hard as we can?

its hard both ways but fact that the minimum wage is getting raise is good. the govt needes to change somethings

Usually as prices raise across the country the wages increase to meet the prices. It's not really so you are making more money, it' so you can keep up with the raising cost of everything else.

The minimum wage here in the UK is already equivalent to $10 - $11. I think that we have a higher cost of living here but, even so, it seems to me that the minimum wage in the USA is far too low. I also think that it is iniquitous that it varies from State to State! Whether raising the minimum wage translates into higher prices really depends to a great extent on how much of the workforce are being paid at the 'minimum wage' rate. The fewer there are, the less effect it will have. Here in the UK it is really impossible to raise a family even with two people working full-time at the minimum wage. Such families would qualify for additional benefits both from the Government and from the local councils.

When the min. wage goes up the employers have to pass the expense onto the general public. Someone has to pick up the tab.

ts hard both ways but fact that the minimum wage is getting raise is good. the govt needes to change somethings

In my province here in Canada the minimum wage is so low that most families will find any means possible to stay on Welfare. To one sense I can't say that I would blame them. I believe here the min wage is about $6.75 per hour, so if you have a job working 40 hours a week, by the time you take out your expenses, especially if you have kids you just cannot survive. However, a young women on income assistance will receive close to $1000.00 a month from the government, heat subsidies, child allowance of about $400.00 per month, rent subsidy, free medical insurance, free daycare, and clothing and school supplies, for the children, not to mention free courses that they might use to try and get a job. Honestly, if you are living with $1400.00 or more a month and 99% of your expenses paid for, does the government actually think that offering these job training will make people get out and go to work....getting what they receive they would have to earn about $15.00 per hour.... Just another reason that the min wage can increase all it wants but it will not make one bit of difference.... The Government is it's own worse enemy...

sometimes governments act to fast and sometimes act so slow.sometimes governments make confusing in some places.ah what the best citizen must doing?

sometimes governments act to fast and sometimes act so slow.sometimes governments make confusing in some places.ah what the best citizen must doing?

Well what happens to us military families is that they will give a little pay raise here and there, or like for us living overseas they may deem it necessary to raise our COLA as a result of the dollar not doing well against the euro, and then after the raise goes into the checks, you will notice the commissary raises prices of food and non-products, AAFES (BX, PX, NEX)will raise prices on commonly used and bought items. Oh and we are told that the prices for our gas coupons is based on the average price civilians are paying in the US, yet when your prices were lowered, we still saw $3.50 and higher for almost 3 months before they lowered it a little bit. So, in part I have to agree with you. We make a little more and the government finds a way to take it back or the local businesses find a way to extract more from us.

I think so yes.. some are against raising the minimum wage also because it slows down business, especially small business. Some economic politics says to let businesses run.. free enterprise makes for productivity, makes more jobs.. And other economic politics seem to want less jobs and more welfare. I think this is because the more government programs you have, the bigger government keeps getting. Ultimately would you have a society where everyone looks to the government for aid and support? But this cannot work. Because after awhile productivity collapses, and where then is the government to collect the taxes for said aid and support anyway? I'm divided about minimum wage laws.. but think more jobs is almost always the way to go, and less government.

There are some serious problems with your statement. Currently the federal minimum wage is $5.15 NOT $6.75. Depending on which state you live in the STATE minimum wage might be higher. Also, the federal minimum wage is NOT going to be raised after the first of the year. Currently there is talk of the federal minimum wage being raised but I doubt that Congress can get it done by the first of the year. Now, you may have been speaking of the particular state that you live in. If so, specify your state instead of saying "here in the USA". Get your facts straight before you try to make a social or political commentary.

When you raise wages, prices go up too. It's a vicious cycle. I don't think raising the minimum wage is the answer. Getting the cost of living back down makes more sense to me. I keep seeing news report after report about how everyone is struggling financially and are more in debt. I know it has to be even tougher for someone only making minimum wage

when people say that prices are going to go up becasue minimum wage gets in increase, I think that they are missing the point. For the most part, prices go up on a lot of goods and services even when there is no raise in minimum wage. A lot of times the prices change based on supply and demand. Now as we all know, gasoline and home heating costs have increased tremendously in the last few years, yet no minimum wage increase was put into effect then. And this is just one example of how prices have changed since the last min. wage increase. Im quite sure that none of us is paying the same amount for groceries or any other product that we use regularly as we did when the min. wage was last increased. And just as a side note, I think the federal minimum wage is still 5.15 and that hasnt changed in decades. I assume that whatever state you are in just passed a new min. wage for the state to bring it to 7.15. I know here in ohio we just raised ours to 6.85.

the new wage raise would help in no way...it will be compensated by rising the prices...

"Here in the USA the minimum wage is going to raise again fromm 6.75 to 7.15$ after the first of the year." It's hard to use such a general term when referring to minimum wage. I'm not sure where you're at right now, but minimum wage raises by state. It is only $5.75 where I am. The higher the cost of living is, the higher minimum wage will be. It all depends on where you live. But yes, they do raise it to meet the requirements of the price of other things such as taxes on electricity, food and the price of gas.