NPR (formerly National Public Radio) reports:
By a 44-5 vote, Chicago's City Council set a minimum-wage target of $13 an hour, to be reached by the middle of 2019. The move comes after Illinois passed a nonbinding advisory last month that calls for the state to raise its minimum pay level to $10 by the start of next year.
The current minimum wage in Chicago and the rest of Illinois is $8.25. Under the ordinance, the city's minimum wage will rise to $10 by next July and go up in increments each summer thereafter.
[...]The bill states that "rising inflation has outpaced the growth in the minimum wage, leaving the true value of lllinois' current minimum wage of $8.25 per hour 32 percent below the 1968 level of $10.71 per hour (in 2013 dollars)."
It also says nearly a third of Chicago's workers, or some 410,000 people, currently make $13 an hour or less.
[...][In the 2014] midterm elections, voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota approved binding referendums that raise their states' wage floor above the federal minimum.
Media Matters for America notes that The Chicago Tribune's coverage tried to trot out the *job-killer* dead horse once again, to which the response was
According to a March 2014 report(PDF) prepared for the Seattle Income Inequality Advisory Committee titled "Local Minimum Wage laws: Impacts on Workers, Families, and Businesses", city-wide minimum wage increases in multiple locations--Albuquerque, NM; Santa Fe, NM; San Francisco, CA; and Washington, DC--produced "no discernible negative effects on employment" and no measurable job shift from metropolitan to suburban areas.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Kromagv0 on Monday December 08 2014, @08:07PM
Or instead they might do what one business did here which was to add a minimum wage surcharge [twincities.com] when it last went up.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Monday December 08 2014, @08:21PM
These things mostly just help highlight how small the employees' chunk of your bill is. It's great marketing for the portion of your audience that are republicans, but it's crummy as an actual political message.
"Hey, this is costing you a penny on the dollar, so the people helping you aren't below the poverty line, how unfair is that?" just isn't a resounding message with most people.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 09 2014, @12:53AM
Not even that much.
A $10.10 minimum wage would add 1c to a $16 item [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thinkprogress.org]
The amount of profits that are skimmed off by people who perform no labor is astounding.
The last items on that page mention companies that ALREADY pay better wages and are doing great.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 09 2014, @01:14AM
A $10.10 minimum wage would add 1c to a $16 item
I see that they're claiming only a $200 million annual increase in labor costs for Walmart across over 2 million employees. That's bullshit from the start since it's not only the lowest wages that will increase as a result. Further, if it's that little a change, then how about the people who care, actually pay for that increase themselves?