DIV: THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE

STATE'S RIGHTS ABUSED - DISREGARD OF THE CONSTITUTION
NORFOLK, Va., May 14, 2007—Hourly workers would favor an increase of the current
federal minimum wage even if it means paying more for products and services as a result,
according to The Employment Guide® Hourly Employee Survey... Nearly two-thirds (65%) of hourly workers surveyed indicated that they would favor an
increase in the federal minimum wage even if the consequence is higher consumer prices.
When asked if they would favor an increase in the federal minimum wage if it meant that a
co-worker would lose his or her job, 50% of this same group said yes.
"Hourly employees understand that raising the federal minimum wage could lead to paying
more at the cash register and a majority is prepared to do exactly that," said Sharon Sewell,
senior director of marketing, communications and membership with the National
Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB), Arlington, Virginia. "A smaller, but still
significant number of people favor the increase even if job losses result. Taken as a whole,
the data suggest that there is popular support for raising the minimum wage, as 31 states
already have."
Professor Christopher B. Colburn, Ph. D, chair of the Economics Department of Old
Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, who reviewed the data, said, "Seeing layoffs in
the workplace may create an uneasy realization for hourly employees that they could be
next in line. However, I suspect that an increase in the minimum wage will not have a large
effect on the labor market for incumbent workers, but rather that seasonal, part-time
employment, and new entrants into the labor market may be more affected."

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• CONSTITUTION
• FEDERAL
• MINIMUM
• WAGE

[DAVESIV]

This is an impulse issue. Kinda like a lure the angler (politician) uses to stir the bite impulse (self interest) in a fish (uninformed voter). It's no good for the fish - the only advantage gained is for the angler.

[bundawartini]

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[randy109]

I agree in principle. Any artificial minimum wage disrupts capitalism's function and takes away bargaining the price of the "commodity" that is labor.