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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.
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.
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That said, 19,000 people in Kansas work in jobs that slip through the cracks and are covered by this wage, but very few places actually pay less than federal minimum wage, simply because (at the moment) there's sufficient competition for workers.
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Or not.
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But yeah, the news programs always manage to find some loon who doesn't really understand the effect of market forces on actual people to parrot the claim that the market should set wages.
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