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
Op-Ed By Gabriele Ruggieri, Owner, Gabriel's Food + Wine
...I had the opportunity to make my dream of owning a restaurant come true. ...Raising Missouri's minimum wage will have a ripple effect, benefiting local businesses and our community. ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial, Oct 22, 2018
PHOTO: Isaac McMurry and Mackenzie MacAfee work in the back to prepare food at Pizza Head in Tower Grove East on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Pizza Head owner, Scott Sandler, pays both McMurry and MacAfee well above the minimum wage and supports raising it.
The time has come for Missouri employers to get off the dime and start sharing their dollars. Minimum-wage workers are being forced to accept a pay scale that doesn’t come close to livable by today’s standards.
By Leah Thorsen
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 22, 2018
Missouri voters will decide in a couple weeks whether to boost the state’s minimum wage, a proposal that comes as several large retailers already are committing to pay employees more, but that advocates say is necessary to improve the lives of thousands of hourly workers who won’t see such raises. ...
If the minimum wage measure passes Nov. 6, Missouri estimates that state and local government tax revenue could increase as much as $214 million. ...
Op-Ed By Blake Ralston, Owner, Ralston Agency
... Raising the minimum wage is an important type of insurance for businesses as well as workers. ...
By Steve Brawner, Talk Business & Politics
KUAR NPR, Little Rock, Oct 18, 2018
Voters will not get to weigh in on a proposed amendment to limit lawsuit damages but will vote on raising the state’s minimum wage after the Arkansas Supreme Court released two decisions Thursday
Fox 16, Little Rock, Oct 18, 2018. Also KARK NBC, Little Rock (Nexstar Broadcasting).
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that a minimum wage issue will remain on the November ballot. Click here to read the full court opinion on Issue 5. ...
By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor
with Stephanie Sandoval, Columbia Missourian
Call Newspapers (MO), Oct 18, 2018
... The minimum-wage measure, called Proposition B on the ballot, would gradually increase the lowest hourly pay in the state to $12 an hour in five years. ... When Raise Up [Missouri] submitted its signatures last spring, it showcased stories of struggling low-income workers trying to raise families to emphasize the need for a higher living wage. ...
By Bethany Budde-Cohen, Owner, SqWires Restaurant & Annex
Letter to the Editor, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Oct 16, 2018
The commentary “Minimum wage hike will lead to unintended consequences” (Oct. 8) by a fellow at the Show-Me Institute tries to mask hostility to a minimum wage law, which it calls “an artificially imposed floor price,” by claiming that raising the minimum wage to $12 by 2023 under Proposition B will cost jobs and “harm the very people” it’s “supposed to benefit.” As a business owner, I can tell you that’s not true.
United Press International (UPI), Oct. 16, 2018
From marijuana in the Midwest to abortion and minimum wage in the South, voters across the United States have more than just hotly contested congressional races to consider in next month’s midterm election. ... Here are some of the highlights. ...
Minimum wage
While there are nationwide campaigns to raise the United States’ minimum wage to $15, two states in the South have ballot measures to raise theirs to a shorter extent.
By Philip Joens
Jefferson City News Tribune, October 11, 2018
A proposal to raise Missouri's minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2023 is dividing businesses. ...
Not all businesses oppose Proposition B. More than 450 business representatives signed a list supporting Proposition B, according to Businesses For a Fair Minimum Wage, a group of business owners that support the measure.
By Andrea Tudhope
KCUR 89.3 (NPR), Oct 10, 2018
... A study from MIT suggests a single adult in Kansas City needs to make $11.05 an hour to get by. The same calculation says an adult with one child needs to make $24.06. But at $7.85, a full-time minimum wage worker in Missouri takes home only about $16,000 a year. ...
CNBC, Oct 2, 2018
CNBC's Kate Rogers reports on the minimum wage impact Amazon is having on small businesses after it raised its minimum wages for U.S. workers.
Quotes Business for a Fair Minimum Wage Statement: "All businesses, big and small, should pay a wage that workers can live on. It's way past time to raise the impoverishing $7.25 federal minimum wage, strengthen consumer demand, and help level the playing field among businesses."
By Daniel J. Munoz
NJBIZ, October 2, 2018
The increase of a minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023 could inject $3.9 billion in the state’s economy through a rise of the consumption power for over 1 million residents, according to a report by the advocacy group New Jersey Policy Perspective.
Op-Ed By Bob Goodrich
Jefferson City News Tribune, Oct 2, 2018. Also in the Fulton Sun.
Movie theaters have been our family business since my father opened a single-screen theater in 1930 with a showing of “All Quiet on the Western Front.” I bought my father’s theater in 1967, and expanded Goodrich Quality Theaters to five states, including Capital 8 in Jefferson City. We couldn’t have done it without great employees and generations of moviegoers coming through our doors.
By Rich Sugg and Allison Kite
Kansas City Star, Oct 1, 2018
The Rieger restaurant owner Howard Hanna talks about Missouri minimum wage vote and his restaurant's protocol of paying well above the minimum wage.