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what are the big winners from yesterday's election
the minimum wage interesting
so back in %uh 2012 just to give you some background here
voters approved a minimum wage
increase in Albuquerque New Mexico San Jose Calif
Long Beach and that's it just those three places and supporters
are currently pushing for higher wages and Alaska Idaho Illinois Maryland
Massachusetts Minnesota
and South Dakota
either through ballot measures for by pressuring lawmakers
but yesterday it was up for a vote in
ballot initiatives in both New Jersey and
a small town in Washington State called SeaTac so
the overall results in Jersey
the measure passed with over sixty percent of the vote that's
on dominant victory so the minimum wage will now be
eight dollars and twenty five cents as opposed to what it was before seven
dollars and twenty five cents which is the federal minimum wage
and they're also gonna tied to inflation from here on out
so it will continue to rise with time as inflation goes up
so in SeaTac they have much more ambitious goal
and the final result aren't in yet but it is looking good overall
and their proposal was to
raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars in
our and it would affect I believe over 6,000 people that work and a an airport
in SeaTac
so that would be tremendous now
keep in mind if the minimum wage simply kept up with inflation
since the 1960s so now like an actual increase just if we had
chain it to inflation back in the nineteen sixties want to be today
ten dollars an hour so
we have a lot of catching up to do we have fallen behind big time on this
issue
but I love this story because it shows you
that the less corrupt local and state politicians
aren't just sitting around waiting for the more corrupt federal politicians
to take action a lot of them on their own are saying
yeah was actually trying to get this done and I give them all the credit in
the world for that
so some more factual a minimum wage but what a poll say on this issue with the
american people think
well according to Gallup 71 percent say raise it
again that's an overwhelming majority on any issue
but the National Employment Law Project had a poll
in their poll they said eighty percent eighty percent say raise it
a Pew poll 71 percent said a raise it
but when it comes to when you break it down by political affiliation
ninety-four percent of the Liberals say raise the minimum wage
seventy-five percent of moderates say raise it
even 54 percent ok conservatives
say a raise it