From NJ Spotlight:
NJ’S MINIMUM WAGES RISES TO $10 TODAY IN FIRST STEP TOWARD $15
Today more than 200,000 New Jerseyans are getting a raise to $10 an hour, the first in the state’s multi-year move toward a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
The Democratic-controlled Legislature passed and Gov. Phil Murphy signed the new wage into law five months ago as a way to provide all workers with a living wage in one of the highest-cost states in the nation. Last year’s ALICE report from the United Way of Northern New Jersey found that close to 40 percent of all households in the state, or 1.2 million, were either living in poverty or working poor and unable to afford such basic needs as food, clothing and shelter, with ALICE defined as Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed.
The minimum wage for most hourly employees will reach $15 by 2024, making New Jersey one of only five states plus the District of Columbia to have enacted a $15 minimum. DC will be the first to reach that mark, next July 1, followed by California in 2022.
Progressive groups fought hard for the higher wage and it was one of Murphy’s campaign promises. Business organizations opposed it. Neither side has changed its mind, with businesses saying it is going to lead to higher costs for consumers and could force some shops to close their doors, while supporters say it will both make it a little easier for workers to make ends meet and boost the economy as people have more money to spend.
“People have been pushed behind in this economy for far too long,” said Brandon McKoy, president of the progressive-leaning New Jersey Policy Perspective. “We are finally starting to get on the road to get to the true value of the work they are doing. It will help them better be able to take care of their families. And there will be gains in the local economies as they are able to afford to buy more things.”
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“Generally and not surprisingly, we’re seeing many of the same concerns we had noted while advocating for a phased in and limited increase — that they’ll need to raise costs or cut expenses to accommodate the higher rate,” said Michele Siekerka, NJBIA’s president and CEO. “Obviously, smaller businesses will be more impacted by this increase to $10 an hour. Whether that includes a small increase for the cost of a burger, as an example, will probably depend on the business.”
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Most workers can be paid no less than $10 per hour starting today, an increase of $1.15 over the current minimum. A second increase to $11 is scheduled for January 1, 2020.
Don’t understand the $65 million in the approved budget as corporate subsidies to assist with minimum wage increases. Sure, the price of child care or senior care will need to rise as the wage increases, this is no surprise.
At this rate, the subsidy will need to move to roughly $300 million a year once we hit $15.
The logic was that companies could afford to pay their minimum wage workers slightly more, without layoffs, or without large price increases. Now we are saying this is not the case?
What happened to “if you can’t afford to pay minimum wage, you shouldn’t be in business?”
An oft repeated comment to my children since age 8 and here as well….
Remember, liberals want to control your life and your money. They mostly accomplish one by doing the other.
When viewed through this lens otherwise incongruous ‘progressive’ policies make sense.
The minimum wage was never about the stated purposes. Implementing it, they now control more of the finances of the population (wage recipients) as well as the finances of business (subsidy recipients). Liberal two-fer.
So the answer is to ignore the problem and hope it goes away? Then at the same time, mock the only individuals with the balls to try and do something about it?!
Republicans hold back innovation in energy for selfish reasons. That’s the bottom line..
Bruiser says:
July 1, 2019 at 7:41 am
Pumpernickel, alternatives are fine. Shutting down gas-fired power plants and putting up a few hundred solar arrays instead is asinine. Expecting the United States to end carbon dioxide emissions in an effort to “save the world” while India & China increase their emissions yearly by more than our decrease is even more asinine.
Selfish, or stupid, but no one can be this stupid so I will go with selfish.
You can spend the next 100 years getting the United States entirely off of fossil fuels, closing all nuclear plants, and somehow innovating getting free lunch energy…and then Yellowstone blows it’s stack the day after the big press conference and plunges the world into a new ice age. Or, China & India just keep on keeping on, and double their current fossil fuel consumption and plunge the world into Smog-For-All. Point is, you are dealing with external factors way beyond the control of the US Government. Just mind you & yours. Everything else will work out eventually.
Where is that asteroid? Please flush it all away…
Based on today’s opening article..
Capitalism is at play (competition). So you have the worker vs business in the division of profit. Only problem, you don’t want either side to totally win the competition on the simple basis they need each other. They can’t live without each other.
So it’s in the economic system’s best interest that you throw the low end workers a bone. They can barely perform their function in the economy to consume products because most of their money goes to housing, not living much for consumption demand in the economy.
Their wages have been held down for so long, that they must now borrow money to produce demand and growth in the economy. How much more debt can they take on? You have to pay these people more, it’s blatantly obvious.
If we could afford to short change workers for this long, we can afford to short change business to bring back strong growth in the economy. Enough with stagnating growth in the economy because you refuse to give workers enough capital to produce it.
It demonstrates that they understand exactly what the economic damage will be. They just don’t care. It amounts to buying votes with other people’s money.
grim says:
July 1, 2019 at 7:16 am
Don’t understand the $65 million in the approved budget as corporate subsidies to assist with minimum wage increases
This position makes no sense.
It’s basically saying I give up, mine as well ignore it because there is nothing we can do about it. The exact opposite of the mindset that made America great.
Bruiser says:
July 1, 2019 at 8:36 am
You can spend the next 100 years getting the United States entirely off of fossil fuels, closing all nuclear plants, and somehow innovating getting free lunch energy…and then Yellowstone blows it’s stack the day after the big press conference and plunges the world into a new ice age. Or, China & India just keep on keeping on, and double their current fossil fuel consumption and plunge the world into Smog-For-All. Point is, you are dealing with external factors way beyond the control of the US Government. Just mind you & yours. Everything else will work out eventually.
Avg individual being in debt is a sign of too much spending or too little pay?
I’m not for business or the worker, I’m for the economic system.
Do you like deflation? Well that’s what we are going to get if we don’t pay our lower workers more. We are dangerously close. They can’t take on anymore debt to drive growth. Look how low the rates are but they don’t bite, not because they don’t want to, but because they can’t afford it anymore no matter how low the rate is.
The sad part, you are sitting here fighting the fix. Deflation here we come!
Just remember, it didn’t have to be this way…
D-FENS says:
July 1, 2019 at 8:41 am
It demonstrates that they understand exactly what the economic damage will be. They just don’t care. It amounts to buying votes with other people’s money.
The Great Pumpkin says:
June 26, 2019 at 10:13 pm
I’ll stop posting….
PumpkinFace says:
June 6, 2019 at 2:09 pm
Simple enough plan. 1) Don’t plan for the future 2) If bad things happen, give up.
Simple as that.
The Great Pumpkin says:
June 6, 2019 at 1:57 pm
If the next downturn is worst than the great recession….than hit the reset button because everything is finished.
The Great Pumpkin says:
July 1, 2019 at 8:43 am
This position makes no sense.
It’s basically saying I give up, mine as well ignore it because there is nothing we can do about it. The exact opposite of the mindset that made America great.
I’ll try to stop posting again. Eventually I will get it right. Hopefully this time is it..
Relevant: https://youtu.be/FX20kcp7j5c
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I’ll try to stop posting again.
Oh sh1t. Trump just trolled Governor Murphy on Twitter
“The Original NJ ExPat says:
July 1, 2019 at 12:10 pm
My 15 year old daughter started her $12 per hour Summer job today.”
What?! No living wage?!?!
I see the media is now throwing Biden under the bus. So, the democrat party has been replaced by some ultra, radical, left wing, socially retarded bunch of misfits.
Eddie. They given up on the middle. The agenda is being driven by victimhood and the mentally ill.
If you are patriotic, Christian or have European ancestry you are not welcome. You are the problem.
When I worked at McDonald’s I was satisfied with the full compensation package:
1. $2.65 per hour.
2. All the free soda you could drink, so long as you brought your own cup.
3. $0.35 per hour credit toward free food on your break.
4. Working close and sweaty with high school babes during work and after work.
What?! No living wage?!?!
At one time, to be liberal actually made for a sound argument and a legitimate cause. Now it’s become a true form of sickness.
Just had a teenage girl wearing a hijab ask me for help finding the right size diapers at shop rite when I was picking up printer paper. That is the future of the democrat party.
Back to the ‘Burbs:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-suburbs-swell-again-as-a-new-generation-escapes-the-city-11561992889
“In an echo of the postwar baby boom, many U.S. suburbs are again suffering growing pains: not enough schools, too much traffic for two-lane roads, and scenic farmland plowed under for housing tracts.
After several years of surging urban growth, Apex and suburbs like it now account for 14 of the 15 fastest-growing U.S. cities with populations over 50,000, according to the census.
Suburbs Soar
Growth rates of suburbs are surpassing the pace of their nearby metropolitan areas.
Percentage change in population for primary cities and suburbs in major metros
Source: Brookings Institute
Notes: Sun Belt refers to states in the South and West census regions and Snow Belt refers to states in the Northeast and Midwest census regions. Data are based on metropolitan areas with populations exceeding one million. Primary cities are the largest cities and up to two additional cities exceeding100,000 people in a metro.
Millennials priced out of popular big cities are flocking to Frisco, Texas, Nolensville, Tenn., Lakewood Ranch, Fla. and Scottdale, Ga.—not exactly household names but among the fastest-growing destinations in the U.S.
“The back-to-the-city trend has reversed,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, citing last year’s census data.
Millennials, the generation now ages 23 to 38, are no longer as rooted as they were after the economic downturn. Many are belatedly getting married and heading to the suburbs, just as their parents and grandparents did.
What is different from the postwar boom of 1950s and 1960s is that growth is far more selective—limited to suburbs blessed by good weather and good jobs, largely in the Sunbelt, where they are growing more than twice as fast as their neighboring cities, Mr. Frey said.”
American Suburbs Swell Again as a New Generation Escapes the City
Rising urban housing costs have sped an exodus of residents, causing strains in ‘Millennial Mayberry’
My millennial snowflake niece just unloaded on me last night. At mini-golf no less. WTF? She is fine, but completely out of central casting. She is going to be a limited person. She also has no idea how much she just alienated me.
*snip*
Madonna’s newest music video has triggered strong emotions in Parkland survivor and gun control activist Emma Gonzalez. The video for “God Control,” released last week, features scenes in a dance club where people, including Madonna, are gunned down by a shooter with an assault weapon — a scene reminiscent of the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, in which 49 people were killed. Gonzalez rebuked the eight-minute video, calling it “f—ed up” and stating “it was horrible” in a Tweet. Gonzalez, 19, was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. when a gunman opened fire on Feb. 14, 2018 with a semi-automatic rifle and killed 17 people. Since then, she and many of her classmates have been outspoken advocates for gun violence prevention. “She should have sent out a message warning what her new video contained, ESPECIALLY to the Pulse Victims, ESPECIALLY as it was released Just After the Anniversary on June 12th,” reads one of Gonzalez’ tweets, which were fired off on Saturday.
Baaaaaaby Shark…. dooo dooo dooo doooo
Uber (JJ Edition)
https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/uber-driver-pulls-out-sex-toy-on-cops-who-feared-it-was-a-gun/
Collusion!! Collusion!! Collusion!! Oh wait, that didn’t work. Border crisis!! Border crisis!! Border crisis!!
The dems need to go back to that r@pe allegation from that woman in Bergdorf. The media dropped that “victim” much too quickly. They usually milk a fake story for months. They could do a Kavanaugh type thing and ride it to the election. By the way, are the SJW’s still using Christine Blasey Ford for any agenda? Is she still too “traumatized” to carry on?
Don’t understand what Trump has to do with anything currently going on in border detention facilities.
Have these not all been around through the entirety of the Obama administration?
America isn’t broke. We’re being robbed. In the 1950’s corporations paid $2-$3 in tax for every $1 paid by a worker. After 50 years of Republicans manipulating legislation in DC they pay less than $.25, get $100 billion in taxpayer subsidies and hide trillions overseas
Grim- Obama who?
Good news, Democrats. The model that correctly predicted the #BlueWave that swept the midterms says President Trump is toast in 2020. Political scientist Rachel Bitecofer pinpoints still-boiling Democratic enthusiasm as a key factor that will drive Trump-haters to the polls next year. The Democratic candidate will sweep Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin back from the GOP to win with at least 278 electoral votes, the model says. “The complacent electorate of 2016, who were convinced Trump would never be president, has been replaced with the terrified electorate of 2020,” writes Bitecofer, of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. “Under my model, that distinction is not only important, it is everything.” Bitecofer’s so-called “Negative Partisanship” model says Trump is only set to get 197 electoral votes. The remaining 68, including must-hold GOP states like Florida and Arizona, are toss-ups.
Have these not all been around through the entirety of the Obama administration?
Compassion and empathy are purposeful tools to advance an agenda. Liberals are all about symbols, images and ideograms. There is no end result, no finished product. It’s a release mechanism to temper their frustrations, to curse something or someone for their position in life. Liberals are short-changed, they’re angry and anything representing achievement is to be destroyed.
I ain’t no Trump fan although he is right on the China tarriffs. And I understand why he was elected. But as for terrifying the candidates on the Dem side are pretty terrifying!
Regardless of ideology Trump is the least articulate and “effective” leader we’ve had in my lifetime.
Good news, Democrats. The model that correctly predicted the #Blue
WaveGonorrhea trickle thatsweptdripped from the midterms…Every first term president who had the house lost the house in the first midterm election, and Trump didn’t lose by much. They often lose the Senate too, but Trump gained.
The Dem who runs against Trump is going to make people forget about Dukakis.
In addition like a well known ^ see above poster Trump just continually lies and his cognitive impairments are obvious.
Regardless of ideology Trump is the most articulate and “effective” leader we’ve had in my lifetime.
Essex – Trump speaks pretty plainly, I’m surprised you have trouble understanding him. Of course, you probably get confused when you fail to hear your favorite dog whistles:
“common sense” gun laws.
climate change is a “real and existential” threat.
“comprehensive” immigration reform.
“hope and change” you can believe in (it’s just invisible and not provable, that’s why you need to “believe” in it. After all, it is a religion)
“living wage”
“Medicare for all”
There’s plenty of money, it’s just in the wrong hands.
“She’s the most qualified”
candidatecrook ever.It’s just a “bimbo eruption.”
“I did not have sex with that woman with my bent dick.”
What i don’t understood is in fact how you’re now not really
a lot more smartly-preferred than you may be right now.
You are so intelligent. You realize thus significantly with regards
to this subject, produced me personally imagine it from so many varied angles.
Its like men and women aren’t interested except it’s one thing to accomplish with
Girl gaga! Your individual stuffs nice. All the time handle it up!
Betsy Ross and the patriot flag are now racist. You knew that was coming.
It’s what progressives do. Destroy everything in sight until they’ve gained total power.
11:18 ever read a transcript of a Trump interview? It scares me.
In all seriousness… the US is circling the drain and this guy is not helping. At all.
Sad thing is I doubt the Dems are better equipped to save the place.
Communism will lose.
Mächïne says:
July 2, 2019 at 12:07 pm
In all seriousness… the US is circling the drain and this guy is not helping. At all.
Sad thing is I doubt the Dems are better equipped to save the place.
12:09 watch the takedown of Amazon warehouses on HBOs last week tonight.
We need unions – boooooooom. You think that’s communism. Then feel free to deep throat my Hebrew national.
Dere’ Gonnnnnna strip ol’ Dick shaped lazy eye bish Bezos of his billions. He’s just gonna piss it away anyhow. Nerds should never be trusted.
Yo. Member when cultural appropriation was all ‘yeah I like dis i’ll Put into the mix…’
Now it’s like yeah You Caint have dat. Pay me.
I blame the The Boomers & The Lawyers.
P.S. faaaaaaaaawk it’s a nice day.
Essex is very focused. His left brain is all Trump and his right brain is all meat products. I can only imagine the traffic jam at the corpus callosum.
Trump is a ridiculous caricature of a president. He is bizarre, uncouth, and often unkind. He might be inarticulate but frankly he has been effective(moreso than O and Bush), he is unpredictable, unstable and scares the living daylights out of many people.
I fear though he is going to take the easy road for re-election and that is to basically capitulate to the Chinese to boost the economy a few months before election time. He can game this and maybe even get a rate cut out of it by pretending to play hardball, the Chinese would get in on the game if promised a favorable trade deal. For they do not need to worry about things like elections or public sentiment.
Those Amazon workers are minutes away from being replaced by robots…..A union, good luck. Warehouse jobs are not easy jobs never have been, nor will they ever be, it is pretty much physical labor, amazon’s working conditions are in line with industry norms, we’ve known people who manage distribution centers, and my dad built more than a few distribution centers for both traditional retail and e-commerce. Amazon is where it is by being brutally efficient, they lift off the pedal a little bit and walmart will be able to undercut their prices and take their sales. The internet is funny customers are far less sticky and can migrate to the best price and buying terms, amazon needs to “win” every sale they get…..
re: Those Amazon workers are minutes away from being replaced by robots.
Yup they have new ones on order.
MARS for All.
Too bad I could not go.
https://remars.amazon.com/
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18744453/amazon-ai-robotics-re-mars-conference-artificial-intelligence-robots-drones
The current economic model:
https://youtu.be/FX20kcp7j5c
Years And Years, is a new HBO 6 part series from the UK.
Really good. Saw in you tube a clip from a future episode, describes a lot https://youtu.be/jaIQj76l_00
AOC says working for Amazon is like being in a concentration camp.
AOC would know. Right!? Right?
When Amazon warehouse opened in Robbinsville, it was company’s most automated and also employed more people -4,000- than any Amazon facility on the planet. I touredthe facility and asked the guy running it why all the automation and at same time so many employees. Answer was the automation enables more product to flow through and they need more people to handle it all. In other words, automation is creating jobs at Amazon facilities.
“It was great, great,” Fairley said. “That was a good idea.”
“Inside these lines you have to turn a switch, have a different mentality,” Bates said. “You can’t bring a basketball game back on the football field. It won’t work.”
The Falcons had no comment Wednesday.
“The secret to our success is our work force,” Nixon said. “The bigger the job, the harder we work. Together, we’re sending a clear, united message.”
“Somebody had to step up and make a pay,” receiver Odell Beckham Jr. said. “And he came up big.”
Amazon warehouses have air conditioning – not cheap in a 1 million square foot building with 36 foot ceilings.. Most warehouses – old and newly built – don’t have AC.. When Amazon rents a new warehouse, nearby warehouse operators panic because they know their workers will run to Amazon’s superior wages and conditions. Media never reports this fact. So much fake news.
Disclosure: I am not an Amazon employees, I am a long-standing shareholder.
What do you do for a living?
Yo! says:
July 2, 2019 at 8:15 pm
Amazon warehouses have air conditioning – not cheap in a 1 million square foot building with 36 foot ceilings.. Most warehouses – old and newly built – don’t have AC.. When Amazon rents a new warehouse, nearby warehouse operators panic because they know their workers will run to Amazon’s superior wages and conditions. Media never reports this fact. So much fake news.
Disclosure: I am not an Amazon employees, I am a long-standing shareholder.
The Dems are going to dip Bezo’s nuts in glitter and let the workers bat him around like a pinãtã.
Arnold Bouka Moutou
The entire argument of underpaid, overworked and mis-treated workers at the lower income levels is so tired and boring.
Not one single employee is being forced to work at Amazon or anywhere else. They are working there of their own free will and are free and encouraged to leave the moment they think they have a better opportunity.
The idea that you accept a job and then start complaining about conditions/wages/etc. is useless.
The only thing that the ownership will listen to is a drop in their labor force. They will then adjust pay/conditions accordingly.