A national network of business owners and executives who
believe a fair minimum wage makes good business sense
Business for a Fair Minimum Wage is a national network of business owners and executives who believe a fair minimum wage makes good business sense
By Lydia DePillis
CNN, June 14, 2019
(CNN Business) The US economy is setting all kinds of records this year, and one of them is the length of time the federal minimum wage has gone without an increase. America's base pay rate has remained at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009 — 3,614 days ago on Sunday. That will be the biggest time lapse since July 2007, when the wage hadn't risen since September 1997.
By Jayne Ann Bugda
PA HomePage/ WBRE/WYOU-TV, June 13. 2019
LANCASTER (WBRE/WYOU-TV) – First Lady Frances Wolf today met with employees of The Stroopie Co. at The Lancaster Sweet Shoppe. There the First Lady called on Pennsylvania legislators to support workers and finally increase the commonwealth's minimum wage to $15 per hour.
ABC 27 News, June 13, 2019
LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) -- First lady Frances Wolf calls it an embarrassment that every state surrounding Pennsylvania has a higher minimum wage.
The wife of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf toured Lancaster Sweet Shoppe on Thursday and tried to rally support for a boost in the state's minimum wage.
She says 89% of people on minimum wage are adults and most of them are women. ...
By Jayne Ann Bugda
PA Homepage/ WBRE/WYOU-TV , May 23, 2019
Labor and Industry Secretary Jerry Oleksiak is pushing for a $15 an hour minimum wage. He toured the One Point Facility in Scranton Thursday morning. The company supports raising the minimum wage and credits paying a living wage for its hourly employees as the key to their growth and success.
By Alex Lloyd Gross
Delaware Valley News (PA), May 23, 2019
By Paul Kurtz
KYW Newsradio (CBS), May 23, 2019
PHILADELPHIA — Supporters of a $15 minimum wage held what they called a day of action in cities and townships across Pennsylvania Thursday. Philadelphia-area lawmakers went to a Suburban Station barbershop where the owner, Michael O'Conner, pays his staff nearly three times the minimum wage.
Inc. Video, May 9, 2019
When Michael Lastoria founded &Pizza, he decided to do things the opposite way from most other fast casual restaurants. Here's what happened.
By Lisa Jennings
Nation's Restaurant News, May 2, 2019
Five years ago, the proposal for a $15 per hour minimum wage seemed a ridiculous suggestion coming from radical fringe groups. ... Today, it seems restaurant operators are increasingly seeing $15 an hour as inevitable at a time when attracting and keeping good workers is harder than ever. ...
But restaurants are not dying. They are adapting by changing the way they think about attracting and retaining workers.
Op-Ed By Howard Hanna, Owner, The Rieger
... Two things are clear: First, the minimum wage hasn’t kept up with the cost of living ... And second, paying higher wages has real bottom-line business benefits. ...
By Joe Tompkins
Meadville Tribune (PA), April 24, 2019
There’s been a renewed push to raise the federal and state minimum wage to $15 per hour and, naturally, the conservative pushback has been strong. ... Their reasoning plays more on fear than facts — myths that keep people at poverty wages. ...
By Zach Sparks
Pasadena Voice, April 18, 2019
... Minimum Wage
Both the House and Senate overrode Hogan’s veto of a bill that will increase the minimum wage to $11 by January 1, 2020. Businesses with 15 or more employees must increase that wage by 75 cents per year until reaching $15 in 2025. Businesses with 14 or fewer employees will increase the rate by 60 cents per year, reaching $15 in 2026. ...
By Richard Bishop
Letter to the Editor, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, April 16, 2019
Sullying good name
As a small-business owner, I was relieved when legislation trying to weaken the law raising the minimum wage was voted down in the Legislature recently. I, along with the majority of Arkansans, voted to raise the minimum wage last November because it makes good economic sense. Some lawmakers tried to use the good name of small business as a reason to weaken the law. That's offensive to small-business owners like myself.
By Kaylea Granville
Baltimore Watchdog, March 29, 2019
The Fight for $15 Coalition is basking in the glow of victory Friday now that the Maryland Legislature has rejected Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage from the current $10.10 an hour to $15 an hour by 2025.
“When workers have more money, they’ll spend more money that’s poured into smaller businesses,” said Coalition Chair Ricarra Jones. ...
By Ally Schweitzer
WAMU 88.5, March 28, 2019
... But employers like Tim’s Towing and Tulkoff Food Products are countered by other business owners across the state who say better wages create better employees.
“It’s important to pay people fairly, because I expect them to show up on time and work hard,” says Andrew Buerger, who co-owns B’More Organic, a maker of drinkable Icelandic-style yogurt. “If they have the sniffles, [they] come in. If it’s a snowstorm, they come in. You can’t pay somebody $10 an hour and expect them to give 110 percent.”
By Ally Schweitzer
WAMU 88.5, March 14, 2019
Maryland’s Senate passed a bill Thursday that gradually increases the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour ... though it establishes a slower timeline for employers with 14 or fewer workers. Next the bill moves to the House of Delegates, where legislators recently passed a version of the legislation without a different timeline for smaller employers. If delegates concur with the Senate bill, it will head to Gov. Larry Hogan for him to sign, veto or let become law without his signature. ...