Governor Wants To Give Minimum Wage A Boost
In New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of The State Address he touched on a lot of items in the State. One of those was New York's minimum wage.
In New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of The State Address he touched on a lot of items in the State. One of those was New York's minimum wage.
State- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver proposed legislation this week that would raise the state’s minimum hourly wage to $8.50 and index it to the annual rate of inflation. The current state minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which matches the federal minimum wage set back in 2009.
Would you be willing to pay more money per trip to Walmart if it meant the employees could make a livable wage? Walmart has around 1.4 million workers and the majority of them make minimum wage or a little bit more