Republicans kill $10 minimum wage proposal for Louisiana

[RandySF]

Republican lawmakers on a state House panel killed a measure that would have established a $10 per hour minimum wage in Louisiana and increased to $14 by 2028.

House Bill 374, sponsored by Rep. Ed Larvadain, D-Alexandria, failed to pass the House Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations in a 5-9 vote along party lines Wednesday.

The bill was just the latest attempt over the years that Louisiana lawmakers have rejected despite independent polls showing overwhelming support for a minimum wage increase from Democrat and Republican voters in the state.

Louisiana doesn’t have its own minimum wage in state law and instead falls back on the federal rate was last adjusted to $7.25 per hour back in 2009. Larvadain told the committee that 30 states, including Arkansas and Florida, have since established a minimum wage greater than the federal minimum.




https://lailluminator.com/2023/05/04/republicans-kill-10-minimum-wage-proposal-for-louisiana/

[marble falls]

1. They want their workers to be school age, uneducated, and under-paid. A side benefit: pit ...

... adult workers against underpaid minor workers. It's a win/win for LA businesses. And lose/lose for the working poor.

[BeckyDem]

9. Yes, they really do.

[hatrack]

2. But people just don't want to work anymore - THAT'S the problem!!!

So, $7.25 X 40 X 52 (assuming you could get full-time hours, of course, and never took time off) would be $15,080/year (before taxes, of course).

But Jesus Guns Babies Oil Libtards Trucks Confederate Flags Woke CRT Trans, I guess.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Red States

Why is it that every red state and blue state comparison you read about focuses on Texas and Florida. Texas has massive natural resources that fund the state. Florida has massive numbers of blue state retirees that fund that state. They are outliers. The norm for Red states is Louisianna, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Tennessee. States that are just near the bottom of every major category including crime, education, health care, income, freedom, income gap, and infrastructure. This is the result of Republicanism, poverty and misery/ For every article about California's issues,there should be 3 about the hellscapes that the Deep South states are for 90% of their residents.

[RandySF]

4. +1

That's my mission.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

5. How many minimum wage earners

In the state will vote for the repervs just because of some stupid prejudice they hold.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Of course the GOP aways votes for more money going to them and the rich.

[newdayneeded]

7. You would think every person

making under $10 or ultimately $14 an hour would vote 100% against the right wing......but, the reality is their need for politicians hating people of color is way stronger.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Selling hatred is a good way to get votes. Americans love to hate someone.

Demonize POC, women, LGBT, teachers, librarians, etc.

Make people hate them and campaign on that.

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. It's how they got the name Lousyanna

well earned.

[kimbutgar]

11. Too bad the people of Louisiana won't hear that the legislature killed raising their wages

I heard the local new is a cesspool of right wing talking points and they only report the weather and the right wingers latest faux outrage.

When you vote Republican you get nothing to improve our life.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Wonder what the migration rate is out of these states now? If I were one of these people living in

this area, I'd move, if possible, elsewhere and stay over, get a better job elsewhere. The more and more people that flee, puts more pressure on the state regulators to look again at these failed policies.

[gratuitous]

13. That's part of the genius

People are too poor to move out of the state. If only Louisiana Democrats could somehow make a campaign issue out of this. But how? HOW????

[Grins]

14. ...even "Arkansas" passed a higher rate years ago.

Imagine being worse than Arkansas.