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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMinimum Wage Hike Has Strong Support Among Employers, Survey Finds
Minimum Wage Hike Has Strong Support Among Employers, Survey FindsBy Dave Jamieson at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/minimum-wage-survey-employers_n_5878252.html
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Poll after poll indicates that the vast majority of Americans believe the minimum wage isn't high enough. Apparently, a lot of U.S. employers agree.
A national survey of 2,000 human resource and hiring managers done for the job search site CareerBuilder found that most of those managers think the minimum wage in their state should be at least $10 per hour. No state currently has a minimum wage of $10, although many have a higher wage floor than the federal level of $7.25.
According to results released by CareerBuilder Thursday, more than 60 percent of the employers surveyed, including 58 percent of senior-level managers, said their state minimum wage should be increased to some degree. The survey was performed by the market research firm Harris Poll.
"Among employers who want an increase in their state, improving the standard of living of workers led all business-related reasons for their support," CareerBuilder said in a breakdown of the survey. "A majority say a higher minimum wage helps the economy and helps them retain employees."
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Minimum Wage Hike Has Strong Support Among Employers, Survey Finds (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2014
OP
oh, I have no doubt business leaders will get together with the government and negotiate out a
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2014
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)1. The money I could have saved on this survey
Wow! Those results could not have shocked anybody. Most of us work with people at the bottom of the pay scale and see how hard they work. Of course we want to see them compensated better then when they accepted their position.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)2. But someone got paid to conduct it
So there's always that!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)4. Bam!!! You got he right in the gut!
You are 100 percent correct.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)3. oh, I have no doubt business leaders will get together with the government and negotiate out a
small minimum wage hike, but it won't be anywhere near what we need. Seattle just passed a $15/hr minimum wage but to live anywhere on the west coast you need to be making more like $25/hour. Democrats wage the banner of bipartisanship so they can claim we are making progress while they agree to spend trillions on war and agree to cut billions on social programs.