Maryland Becomes Sixth State to Adopt $15 Minimum Wage

1. by 2025?! what a farce

2. A $15 minimum wage ALWAYS fails, causing a drop in the number of service industry jobs, especially, and takes a large toll on society. It has NEVER worked, repeatedly, anywhere is has been tried, and still states have to ignore the record and impose it anyway. It's an attempt to insert a simplistic solution to a complex problem. The same is true for a 'universal income' …. virtually every idea they come up with doesn't work, because they don't deal with the erroneous narrative and existing problems with the infrastructure and socio-economical approaches levied in society …. it's an attempt at a cheap fix … more like bread and circuses at the end of the Empire, in reality. It's not a new phenomenon.

3. 6 years? Why in the heck do things take so long here in neoliberal Maryland?

4. Ha! In this economy $15 is the new $9

   All hail unsustainable economic models!

5. Its not raising the minimum wage if its over 6 years. Its raising the minimum wage when you get it now not over six years.

6. Go ahead.
   Raise minimum wage to $15/hr.
   Companies will heavily invest in machine automation, artificial intelligence, and streamlining operations not to mention finally eliminating waste and inefficiencies in the workplace.
   Also…
   Companies will enact stricter hiring standards.
   All those low wage workers currently employed now. Just wait…
   If wages rise high enough. It'll draw legions of older, better qualified, more experienced workers with stable work histories, no criminal records, and their own transportation back to the workforce. Thus crowding out younger less experienced workers. Convicted felons looking to get back in the workforce and current less productive employees.
   Hell, places like McDonald's might start requiring college degrees for new hires.
   Don't laugh. It really happened.
   There actually was a McDonald's in Massachusetts that required a Bachelor's Degree for a simple casher's job back in 2013. Of course, the manager retracted it and claimed it was a typo due to public backlash, but…
   I do believe it was for real.

7. Sounds good, but one thing that's usually come to my mind when hearing or reading a little about the topic of raising min. wage is that if it's done, then won't merchants increase the costs or prices of the products and services that they sell, f.e. If the costs to consumers rise enough due to min. wage increases that workers who'll have received the min. wage increase will be what, in a situation in which they don't really gain? These workers really NEED gain. Otherwise, there won't be any real benefit for them; as well as for consumers, of course. It reminds me a little of when people have sometimes spoken of the US economy as a "rat race" or "rats race". I'm "all for" raising of the min. wage and it's just I want it to be truly beneficial. Otherwise, there'll be no real progress to speak of. There's no doubt that low income workers who honestly and really do their work deserve improved incomes, so compensation, and it's unfortunate that employers don't do it just because govts aren't requiring it. When Jean Charest became PM of the province of Quebec in Canada, well, I certainly wasn't gun-ho to vote for him but did, hopeing that he'd hold to his campaign promises. Once elected and in office, he outraged plenty of people who voted for him because they heard him state what essentially are promises, and I had also heard him state these, but he just denied having done it; and, that, of course, didn't make any of these voters happy. But, he eventually did some good things and one was to increase the min. wage set by the provincial govt. Some employers in some parts of the province opposed the increase, but Charest spoke of this as a plan plenty of months before legislating the increase and during that period, plenty of employers didn't wait for the legislation. Instead, they "jumped right to it", immediately. I guess that either they knew it was a good idea, something deserved, meritworthy, or they just knew that the law would become passed even if they had tried to oppose its passage. Maybe such rises can hurt some small businesses and if it really can, then this needs to be carefully considered, maybe in drafting the legislation, but if not that way, then in some manner to help the small employers. Perhaps, they could be allowed to offer lower pay than the legislated min. wage and if someone willing to do the work wants to do it for such employers, then it's to be left up to such workers. I don't think most adults would be interested, but maybe some teens still living at home without paying any room & board could sometimes be interested. Lastly, it's great to hear or learn that some other places in the US rose the min. wage to $15/hr and found that the pros outweighed the negatives, but how long ago did they start this and what are the prognostics or forecasts for the future like? If the costs of living proportionally increase, then what'll have been gained? I don't think there's any good reason for large corporations to increase their prices, but …; well, I'm not expert enough to be able to provide any strong prediction for how the "chiefs" will react.

8. congratulations maryland–you just went from a poverty wage to another poverty wage.

   15/hour isnt the answer, UBI isn't the answer. seriously i want to know who can work 40hours/week on 15/hour and survive with absolutely no help? THIS IS A JOKE OF A WAGE and shouldn't really be this celebrated.

9. Congrats to Maryland for raising the minimum wage

10. Money is a make believe item created by the privately owned federal reserve. Real value is in the human and trading between them. This current system of slavery will end then people will experience true freedom.

11. 6 YEARS???

12. The working poor should not pay income tax. It will give them extra cash to buy food for their families and pay rent. Throw in free public transit for working poor families.

13. Yaay! Raising the minimum wage would stimulate the economy quite the opposite of what our lawmakers would like for us to believe.

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