When Missouri raises the minimum wage, does everyone get a raise or just people making less than minimum wage?
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Everyone making minimum wage will get a pay increase.  Some companies may compensate those who are making above minimum wage, but it's really, really rare.\n\n(When I was working in St. Charles, I was making $5.50/hr.  When the minimum wage increased to $5.15, my supervisor said that I wasn't making too much.  But my co-worker was originally making $5.18, but complained and threaten to quit.  So the supervisor gave him a $0.30 pay raise.)
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all minimum wage (and below) earners
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Pro:  The minimum wage ensures that mentally disabled/challenged workers are not legally taken advantage of, in terms of pay.\n\nCon:  The economic value of a job is not changed by the minimum wage.  Raising the minimum wage simply raises the prices of goods & services (inflation) and increases the attractiveness of foreign outsourcing.\n\nThe minimun wage is a great campaign issue because most voters want/expect a raise.  In reality, it is a worthless promise of increased wealth.  In relative, inflation adjusted terms, the minimum wage earners will still be poor and have the same buying power.
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Raising the minimum wage causes many minimum wagers to lose their jobs. Better off with 5.15 and working your way up to a better job.
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It was the Senate, not Congress.  S.Amdt. 4322 to S. 2766\n\nAll Republicans except for 8 (4 of whom are up for re-election) voted down on it. All Democrats voted for it. Contrary to popular belief, most minimum wage workers are adults and a majority of them are women.\n\nRemarkably, Congress has raised their own pay seven times (over $30,000) since the last time they raised the pay of minimum wage workers.\n\nNays:\nAlexander (R-TN)\nAllard (R-CO)\nAllen (R-VA)\nBennett (R-UT)\nBond (R-MO)\nBrownback (R-KS)\nBunning (R-KY)\nBurns (R-MT)\nBurr (R-NC)\nChambliss (R-GA)\nCoburn (R-OK)\nCochran (R-MS)\nCornyn (R-TX)\nCraig (R-ID)\nCrapo (R-ID)\nDeMint (R-SC)\n Dole (R-NC)\nDomenici (R-NM)\nEnsign (R-NV)\nEnzi (R-WY)\nFrist (R-TN)\nGraham (R-SC)\nGrassley (R-IA)\nGregg (R-NH)\nHagel (R-NE)\nHatch (R-UT)\nHutchison (R-TX)\nInhofe (R-OK)\nIsakson (R-GA)\nKyl (R-AZ)\nLott (R-MS)\nMartinez (R-FL)\n McCain (R-AZ)\nMcConnell (R-KY)\nMurkowski (R-AK)\nRoberts (R-KS)\nSantorum (R-PA)\nSessions (R-AL)\nSmith (R-OR)\nStevens (R-AK)\nSununu (R-NH)\nTalent (R-MO)\nThomas (R-WY)\nThune (R-SD)\nVitter (R-LA)\nVoinovich (R-OH)
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When the government sets a value for something, rather than the free market, there will be consequences. When you raise the minimum wage, you do two things. One, you make the cost of unskilled labor rise, sometimes higher than the actual value of the labor. Two, you devalue the people who have proven that they are worth more.\n\nIf I am paying a person $ 6.00 per hour, that is what he is worth to me. If he can find a job paying more, he is free to do so with my blessing! \n\nLook at this situation, for an example:\n\nI have two workers. One I hired last month, and am paying $6.00 per hour. He is still learning the job, and I have to spend time training him! The other worker has been with me for a year, and is making $7.00 per hour. They both do the type of work, but the second worker is more valuable to me, because he is trained!\n\nIf the minimum wage is raised to $ 7.25 per hour, I have to make a business decision. I will have to raise the  pay of both employees to $7.25. The new guy is not woth that to me, so he is going to be laid off. My other worker will be given the raise, but he will actually be going backwards in reality. He had worked his way up to a higher pay rate, but now is back to minimum. Prices will go up, but his real pay  (in relation to the cost of living) will go down.\n\nIf a $7.25 minimum wage is good, why not raise it more. Why not $17.25? Why not $172.50?
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If you can not afford Missouri, you are pretty much condemned to working for a living, sorry about that.\n\nJohn B.
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The price of goods are increasing steadily without a minimum wage increase.  If it cost $4 for a gallon of milk and the minimum wage is $5.15 then, yes, I think the minimum wage increase would help those people making minimum wage.  Oh, and it's not just teenagers making minimum wage. \n\nHere's an except from an article on the people making minimum wage. \n\n"One reason even some Republicans are mulling the wage hike is that the number of single mothers making minimum wage has nearly doubled in the last 10 years. Of Americans making less than $7.25 an hour, half are over 24 years old, and about half are primary household earners. Sixty-two percent are white, 16 percent are black, and 17 percent are Hispanic. Nearly twice as many are women than men.
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so lets raise min wage and allow illegal immigrants.  who do you thank will be fired and who will be then hired.  how much money will that take out of the min wage workers hands?  all maybe?
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The Federal minimum wage is 5.15.  It was raised in 1997 from 4.75.  Each state also has a minimum wage that may be more or less than that.  THis is a really cool interactive map that shows what the rates are in each state: http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm
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Kansas is the only state below the federal designation of $5.15. It is a paltry $2.65 in Kansas, which is why that state sucks horribly.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_minimum_wages\n\nOne needs to keep in mind however, that several states, mostly in the south, have NO minimum wage requirment.\n\nHere's a ranking which goes well with minimum wage, per capita personal income:\n\nhttp://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_per_inc_percap-economy-personal-income-per-capita
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Since 1997 the minimum wage has remained the same...despite rising costs of EVERYTHING!  Yet congress o.k.'d a raise for themselves.........Aren't republicans repulsive?
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Minimum wage is $5.15 according to federal law and most states, but some states mandate higer and lower minimum wages. The Labor Department has a map comparing all state minimum wages to the federal minimum wage.
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Current minimum wage is 5.15/hour. There is nothing in Texas pending. On the federal level, there were 2 proposals last year. The Democratic proposal would have raised it to 7.25/hour; this effort was led by Ted Kennedy. The Republican proposal would have raised it to 6.25/hour; this effort was led by Sen Rick Santorum. These were to be added to the bankruptcy law last year but both of these were defeated.
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Because U picked the WRONG person as president!\n\nhe doesn't want minimum wage to go up! last increase was made like 7 yrs ago (I think Clinton did, but not sure). There was a proposal of minimum wage increase few weeks ago but it's rejected!
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As of July 1, 2006, the minimum wage is $7.25/hour.  July 1, 2007 the minumum wage increases to $7.75/hr.
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The federal minimum wage is currently $5.15 per hour.\n\nIf you work in a state with a higher minimum wage, you would be paid the higher rate.\n\nHere is a link to the state minimum wages (it is interesting)\nhttp://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm