Living Wage NYC Campaign Begins

The Living Wage NYC campaign was launched on May 25th by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), City Council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma, community groups from around the city, and other elected officials. The goal of the campaign is to pass the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act to ensure that New York City subsidies for economic development create living wage jobs.

For more information, visit http://www.livingwagenyc.org

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• Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act
• Living Wage
• Ruben Diaz
• Jr.
• Stuart Appelbaum
• RWDSU

[finarrykahn13]

Mandating wage levels above market value has been shown to motivate employers to: 1) hire less workers in order to keep labor costs low; or 2) raise the price of their products in order to compensate for increased labor costs. I don't have the cure to economic inequality or know the best method to ameliorate the conditions of the poor population. But I wish people would at least acknowledge or discuss the self-defeating, economic consequences of proposed social solutions.

[thesiouxgoddess]

What the "Powers That Be" are trying to do is turn the average New York/American working class person into the peasants that suffer in some Third World sweat-shop somewhere like Bangladesh, Cambodia, The Philippines, Central America, so on and so forth. The lady in the white blouse is right: Just to keep a segment of people poor as dirt, despite the fact you are working like a damn dog in the first place. AND STILL HAVE NOTHING. I been in that situation before!

[thesiouxgoddess]

In order to survive on $7.25 an hour, you have to literally work 120 HOURS A WEEK! That is what you must do in order to make in on seven-dollars-and-a-quarter! I'm NOT willing to work even 60 hours a week, let alone 120 hours because I still can't hardly pay my rent or bills or buy food, clothing, etc on $7.25/hr.