Red-state blues

[sigma7]

The national minimum wage just got raised to an astronomical $5.85/hour.

The minimum wage in the state of Kansas? $2.65/hour, or about $6,000/year, and efforts to raise it have been stonewalled by the legislature. God, I didn't even earn that low a wage when I worked in radio.

Comments

[adele87.livejournal.com]

Doesn't make a difference, federal minimum wage is $5.85

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does make a difference. Any business that only works within the state (and meets some other criteria) can ignore the Federal minimum wage. As I pointed out above, that's 19,000 people in Kansas employed at places that could pay them under three bucks an hour (although most don't go that cheap).