On Wednesday, the Ohio Ballot Board certified the language for the proposed amendment brought forth by Ohioans for Raising the Wage.
James Hayes, the coalition’s spokesman, says the measure mirrors the 2006 initiative that indexed wage increases to inflation.
“We would be voting to raise wages to $13 by 2025,” he states. “That rate would be connected to inflation so wages would continue to rise with the cost of living year after year as it has been thus far, but we would just have a higher floor to begin with.”
The current minimum wage is $8.70 an hour. The coalition needs to collect about 450,000 certified signatures by July 1 to put the measure before voters in November.
While there is no formal opposition to the measure at this time, some concerns have been raised about the impact on businesses as well as the need for the measure given the 2006 amendment.
However, Hayes argues that the current minimum wage leaves even full-time workers without enough money to cover basic necessities.
“For the last 14 years the legislature has not been responding to the needs of working people as wages have stagnated,” he states. “The communities that the organizations that are a part of our effort represent have been hurting for too long and we know that we can’t wait for help from Columbus. “
Currently, an Ohioan working full time for minimum wage is paid just over $18,000. And according to research from Policy Matters Ohio, that would leave a full-time worker with a family of three approximately $3,000 below the poverty line.
This story was produced in association with Media in the Public Interest and funded in part by The George Gund Foundation.
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This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2020.
Of course, many of those workers will end up with $0 wage when the business closes or lays off staff. A full-time worker with 2 children and working for minimum wage needs more than a raise.
I know, why not raise it to $30 per hour!!! That ought to solve everything!!!
Then, our local corrupt leaders can install another ma$$ive property tax levy on us homeowners to pay for all these extra hourly wages!!!
Sorry, but if a business relies on paying its workers 8$ an hour to survive, it deserves to die, period.
As it is your tax dollars are already going to subsidize workers via corporate welfare programs. Walmart is one of the largest beneficiaries of said corporate welfare, since the pay to their overworked, underpaid associates is so shitty, most can’t afford to feed themselves. Why in the world should we let that continue? So their execitives and CEOs can reap the benefits of being legally allowed to f their workers over? Nope, if they won’t do the right thing voluntarily, it’s time to force them to do it with a minimum wage that is actually commensurate with the increased cost of living.
End corporate welfare now, anyone who works 40 hours a week should, at the very least, be able to afford to feed themselves. If we raise the minimum wage, they actually will and the welfare rolls will begin to shrink.
This is a common sense proposal. It’s more reasonable than the 2006 proposal and will directly help a lot of Ohioans meet the actual cost of living. Current wages have not kept pace and are insufficient to live on. It’s high time for it to happen. Hope it makes it on to the November ballot.
This initiative was pushed by President Trump. Be sure to punch your ticket for him in November 2020 as a thank you for being such a responsible thought President.
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Shocking, another idiot Trump voter who doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about. If you look up Trump’s stance on the minimum wage, he has SAID that he’d like to see it go up, but he’s DONE absolutely nothing because he’d piss off all of his robber baron, business criminal cronies.
If he’s so in favor of it, why hasn’t he done a damn thing to raise the federal minimum wage? That’s one that would easily see bi partisan support in the House and Senate.
Trump doesn’t give a shit about the minimum wage or the middle class. If he does actually do something about it, I will be shocked. I would support it, but I’d also recognize the move for exactly what it would be: a transparent attempt to pander to middle class voters in an election year.
MAGA is for morons.
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I just remembered, the House did pass a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to 15$, not only did ole cheeto face not endorse it, he threatened to veto the bill. He hasn’t had to, because the do nothing Republican Senate has so far refused to even vote on the bill.
Trump’s advisors (fellow robber baron business criminsl scum) have been outspoken in their opposition to raising the federal minimum wage.
You couldn’t be more full of shit you moronic Trumptard, way to pull blatant lies out of your dumb ass.
MAGA is still for mongoloids.
President Donald J Trump is solely responsible for this, and if my fellow minimum wagers want to see this come to fruition they need to reelect him as Commander in Chief. It’s Relatively Simple.
Only thing relatively simple here is you.
Keep making up nonsense.
MAGA is for mouthbreathers.
5 to 1 odds that the Trump supporter is a Russian bot account spouting Putin endorsed trash in order to influence public opinion due to the upcoming election.
His English sucks, and he’s obviously a mental defective.
Those are two things Putin loves in his toadies. Who wants to wager?