He was hired at $5.50 an hour — above the old hourly minimum wage of $5.15 — to bus tables for the summer at Grant Central Pizza & Pasta Restaurant in Grant Park. Now, he'll get $5.85 an hour, the result of Congress passing an increase this year.The last time the federal minimum wage got a boost, Sept. 1, 1997, Connor was in a booster seat. Since then, 32 states and the District of Columbia have increased minimum wage at the state level. Georgia is among 18 states that didn't.
While the teenager is psyched about the extra money, he wonders how older full-time minimum wage workers will make it on a 70-cent increase, the first of three incremental increases during the next two years.
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Once the minimum wage hits $7.25 in 2009, its value still won't match the value of minimum wage in 1956, when it was $7.65 in today's dollars.
I heard the author of the bill that eeks out that wonderful raise over the course of three years, Ted Kennedy, this morning on NPR saying he's going to start talking up a $9.50 minimum wage. They refer to that as a "living wage."
In what country?
And in what year will that take place?
In the meantime Congress has been getting its regular raises. Priorities, you know.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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