Midknight Review -- new and revised: The untrained just forced a deal for $15 per how. Anyone actually think that this will not cost jobs? Good Grief.

NY Times: The labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City set off nearly four years ago has led to higher wages for workers all over the country. On Wednesday, it finally paid off for the people who started it.

A panel appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recommended on Wedesday that the minimum wage be raised for employees of fast-food chain restaurants throughout the state to $15 an hour. Wages would first be raised in New York City and then the rest of the state.

The decision is a major victory for the campaign to improve the lives of workers who often struggle to pay for basic needs on low salaries. “This is one of the really great days of my administration,” Mr. Cuomo wrote in a Tweet shortly after the decision.

Editor's notes: Minimum wage in NY is $8.75. How many jobs will be lost when the food industry is forced to double its wages? And do not think for a minute that high minimum wages do not cost jobs. In 1978, 15.4 million folks were on minimum wage ($2.72 per hour). Today, that number has fallen to 6 million folks working for $6.25 per hour.

When I was a contractor (now retired), entry level pay was $12 per hour when the state's minimum was around $5.70. Today, if in business, my minimum would be around $17 per hour. If a 15 dollar wage was ordered by the State, for entry level workers, I would quit hiring entry level people . . . . could not afford training for a year or more at $15 per hour.

54,000 minimum wage workers live in New York's five boroughs . . . . 91,000 state wide. This blog will try to follow this story for the next 12 months.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

The untrained just forced a deal for $15 per how. Anyone actually think that this will not cost jobs? Good Grief.

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