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How New Jersey's Creeping Wage Hikes Are Crippling Mom-And-Pop Restaurants
Another day, another unintended consequence of the socialist state's eagerness to "make things better" for everyone, blowing up in its face.
For today's anecdote we go to New Jersey where legislation introduced by Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter, D-Paterson which passed in the Assembly’s Labor Committee on a party-line vote last March, calls for an increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers. It would increase the federal minimum of $2.13 per hour to $3.39 by the end of this year and $5.93 by 2016.
Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter wants an increase in the
minimum wage for tipped workers from the federal minimum of
$2.13 per hour to $3.39 by the end of this year. (Photo:
New Jersey Assembly Majority Office)
So far so good: after all, in isolation, it's a tiny amount, and will hardly impact the employer, while it should boost the bottom line of minimum wage employees, leading to a win-win for everyone right?
Well, no, because nothing is ever "in isolation." However, to grasp the practical implications of how minimum wage hikes flow through the system one needs to actually be a small business owner - the person paying the wage - not a politician, who may have the best intentions in mind (if only for one's own bank account and delusions of grandeur) yet have zero practical understanding that such centrally-planned meddling in the free market always does more bad than good.
Case in point, the following story of Rob Pluta who owns and operates Leonardo’s II, an Italian eatery in Lawrenceville, New Jersey as recounted by The Daily Signal.
Pluta wasn’t wild about the constitutional amendment New Jersey voters approved last year that raised the state’s overall minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.25 and linked annual increases to the Consumer Price Index. But he’s even more concerned about legislation introduced by Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter, D-Paterson. Sumter’s bill, A857, which passed in the Assembly’s Labor Committee on a party-line vote last March, calls for an increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers. It would increase the federal minimum of $2.13 per hour to $3.39 by the end of this year and $5.93 by 2016.
For restaurant owners, that’s even worse than it sounds, Pluta says. Under current law, if employees don’t make $8.25 counting tips and base, the employer makes up the rest. Pluta says he’s never had to pay—his employees routinely make $15 to $20 per hour or more.
If this legislation passes—a companion bill in the state Senate has not moved, and it’s unclear if Republican Gov. Chris Christie would sign it if it did reach his desk—Pluta would have to pay out up to $24,000 more per year, plus payroll taxes. His employees, however, would see little difference in their paychecks.
In short, "This is not a logical proposal,” he says. “It’s an additional cost and an additional burden." However, there is no populism in being logical: one wins relection by pandering to the lowest common denominator even if it means a wholesale increase in food prices which has a ripple effect on demand, and ultimately, may likely lead to the evisceration of the mom and pop restaurant industry of New Jersey.
Pluta’s customers understand what this will mean. Kevin and Eve Connelly are regulars. They like to order a shrimp platter with cocktail sauce. It’s not on the menu and is supplied only by request.
“If the restaurant suddenly has to pay for something it didn’t have to pay before, one way to cover that cost is to raise menu prices,” Kevin Connelly says. “So we are probably going to have to pay more for that shrimp.”
And that, says Eve Connelly, will have a ripple effect. Higher prices mean people go out less often, which means less in tips for the wait staff at Leonardo’s II. “I wonder if this is something the politicians understand,” she says.
No, they don't. But they are not paid to understand. If they were, they would grasp that corporations will pass on costs first, middle and last, to the point where the business crosses its viability point and competitors come and, pardon the pun, eat its lunch.
“What I keep trying to drive home is that we are forced into paying costs we never had to cover before in addition to the minimum wage increase that is already in motion,” he says. “This will cripple the restaurant industry. This is especially true for start-ups and other borderline businesses operating at the margins.”
Ironically, in pursuing this kind of wealth redistribution, politicians are crushing the small and medium businesses, those which traditionally are the biggest sources of new jobs, and handing over their business to established, franchised mega corporations, which have the economy of scale to offset such cost hikes.
T.C. Nelson, who owns the Trenton Social on South Broad Street in Trenton, told The Daily Signal the winners will be chain restaurants, which “have the economy of scale to absorb these costs.” The losers, Nelson says, will be neighborhood bars that can’t survive the extra expense.
“What this proposal does is take the art of service and hospitality out of the hands of the small business,” he says. “Right now, it’s hard to know how much this will cost. But you can be sure some of the smaller, local neighborhood places will go under.”
Pluta is not optimistic.
“This is an easy issue to demagogue,” he says. “If this bill does go through it will mean higher consumer costs and less business in restaurants, which works to the disadvantage of the very workers the politicians say they are trying to help.”
Well yes, but it will also help the major restaurant chains, most of which are subsidiaries of publicly owned holding companies (which most likely have been buying back their shares hand over fist courtesy of Bernanke's policies and rewarding management for doing... nothing at all) and which have also spent countless dollars lobbying the Shavonda Sumters of the world to do their bidding, while masking this corporatist hypocrisy with the pleasant face of "we are just trying to make lives better for the minimum wage earners" populism.
That, like the stock market, only works until it doesn't, until all small businesses are ultimately crushed or simply decide to go away, and there is no marginal creator of any jobs left, period. Which, needless to say, leads to a far worse outcome for everyone.
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The more they fiddle with the market, the worse it will get.
They should concentrate on the one thing they arent doing, making fair laws, enforcing the rule of law, and keeping regulations fair, simple and transparent.
Who exactly did these socialists think they were getting "free" money from?
Every action has a reaction, magnified in managed markets especially.
They think they can vote for free things forever???
RIPS
"Unintended?" That's laughable. Everything is intended.
Exactly. Until the average person understands that governments create laws to control humans, rather than maximize individual and collective well being, we will continue to read articles telling us how stupid our politicians are, instead of how hypocritical and evil they really are.
Some politicans are indeed that stupid, LL. They're the ones who are "handled." Greed and self-interest are usually all that are needed by the "handlers." The smarter ones? Fear can put them in line, if need be. And like you say, the rest are evil, and serve their masters willingly.
Two dollars an hour? Greedy workers lol...
NJ is a festering shithole
One day the only people living there will be govt workers and politicians
Just like Deathtroit
There are definitely places you dont want to break down..
I've lived in NJ all my life (thanks for your apologies, folks) and am seeing SMB restaurants in my area folding left and right this year. Restaurants that have been established in the 1940s and 1950s are an endangered species. I was at the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton today and saw no more than 10 cars in the parking lot. That restaurant is a landmark in this area and had their big parking lot full almost every day up until a year or two ago. I don't know how much longer they can survive. The chains in the strip malls are doing reasonably well, so people are still eating out here.
Deflation is a bitch.
Buy gold.
taxflation with a mix of incomedeflation. Income goes down, taxes go up, and products cost more. Do Government workers ever take pay cuts?
No! Because government is there to enforce protection of opulent; in the US case, the Neo-Liberal policies.
The problem is that, about 98% of the population do not understand how Neo-Liberal policies work. And what a Neo-Liberal is. When I tell that Reagan and Clinton are Neo-Liberals, people look at me in disbelieve.
Then, I tell them to look at both Reagan and Clinton, not for what both presidents said but, by their labor and economic policies, and it’s all there.
Anyway, below is great book on this subject:
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
http://www.amazon.com/Never-Serious-Crisis-Waste-Neoliberalism/dp/1781680795/ref=pd_ybh_1
As you can guess I love gold. I just wish the manipulators would leave it alone and let it rise to reflect the true state of our situation. No hope for that I guess.
Rubens on Lorian too. The Eateries on Detroit are holding on by a shoestring because the shoe hasn't dropped there ... yet. The Corporate bar - rib/burger/BBQ/seafood. operations are doing quite well.
As have I..
Not a bad turkey club at the tic toc, but it's been a long while since then.
Resturants in Red bank, Rumson, Ocean twsp. all have up to an hr. wait fri. & sat. night. and they are steady all week long.
$1-$2 an hr. more isn't that bad, not like a doubling of the minimun wage would be.
Standing ovation for the thing enabling this - none other than the corrupt incompetent arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic pathological liar in chief only interested in its overprivileged obscene celebrity grand imperial golf lifestyle on the backs of hard working tax paying U.S. citizen serf & peasants too asleep to know it's ripping them off.
Tick Tock Diner...Oh the Irony..
This is a State that is Socialist to the Coor. No gun rights etc. Should we really acknowledge it for what it is.
Now I want a Coors Light.
With a name like Shavonda, you just know you're in for a quality, value added performance.
I kinda smile about the travails of retards who continue to struggle and curse the falling night in California, Illinois, New York, and Joisey; I wonder how you can be smart enough to run a business yet a functional retard.
It's kinda like opening a day care on top of a volcano, staffing it with Ebola positive Somalis and then complaining about your troubles...
Shes right at home in Paterson...trust me
They will not be happy until they take everyone down to their level, even if it means inevitable enslavement of every individual by the State. Ironic. Very ironic.
Does it really matter at this point? I am going to put all my 'assets' in a trust, and then I am going to get on every freakin .gov FREE money program out there, consider it my shoulder to the wheel of tipping this bitch over. Might as well help collapse this bitch as the time to 'reform' the system passed decades ago, now lets all suck on the tit until there is nothing left and the Great Reset comes.........
You, Sir, are both a Patriot and gentleman.
Nemo, what took you so long? DAmn near 50% of America is sucking Uncle Sam's . . .err . . . tit.
I for one love this rule. The dumber the mistakes the sooner the whole system goes up in flames and we can start over with something clean and fair.
Onwards!
Fair, Fair... Isn't that what we are getting now.... I do not want fair I want equality between parties and NOONE able to manipulate currency and money, A gallows for those who would endanger equality with such..
Q: How many democraps does it take to change a light bulb?
A: That's not funny & your a racist. And gimme all your money so we can give it to more deserving people because we know better.
F New Jewersy. There are some very pretty spots but the people and liberalism have made it a third world shit hole.
Most third world shit holes are cheap. NJ is incredibly expensive...for now.
Yest, but what I still do not get is why people cannot see this is all part of the takeover by the globalists---yes, people like this dumb woman from New Jersey who probably has a hard time spelling her own name are compartmentalized and she is probably not part of the takeover---just a useful idiot; however, she is FUNDED by the crime syndicate and her policies are funded by them as well---you can be sure of that!
The crime syndicate puts into useful idiots like this dumb woman to carry out their takeover to destroy small busineses and centralize power!
Gee, who could have seen this coming? As Maggy T. once infamously said, "Socialism works until you run out of other people's money." And in a similar vein, should it come as a surprise that from 1950 - Present, the Northeast [Penn to Maine] has lost 40% of the seats in the US House? Money votes with its feet.
www.traderzoo.mobi
Wait a minute, doesn't this mean that the rise of socialism in the US is concurrent with the South and West's increase of political power? The red states have been living large on the Northeast's money?
you mean those economic centers of Bridgeport and Newark? Or are you talking about NYC which has a printing press in the basement. Please tell us all about those economic power houses of Buffalo and Hartford CT
The northeast is a one big rackteering center...stealing from the rest of the country! Almost as bad as DC
Did you know that except for Texas, red states get more from the federal government than they send in? Where would Bridgeport and Buffalo be if they kept all that $$$? Red states are the real welfare queens
Bullshit. Dig into the numbers. In those red states that take in more .gov dollars it is because of the huge military bases, huge sprawling nature preserves and national forests. The only welfare there is flowing to military industrialists and the greenie lobbyists.
Don't break the propaganda.
Trolling at the hedge is not a way to be taken seriously.
Venturen is absolutely right---the northeast IS THE CRIME SYNDICATE-----Washington DC are simply the enforcers and protectors of the crime syndicate. If people don't wake up to what these leaches and parasites are doing to the host (our country) we are done! And for you smart ones out there, I know we are done because they won't wake up, but people don't like it when you are not "optimistic" so I will leave it at "if they don't wake up"---which they won't!
Cradle to the grave .gov care gets less expensive the shorter the citizen's lifespan
jb
yes, the overlords "managing" the economy
With managers like them, who needs enemies?
oh, boo hoo....we might have to pay an extra 50 cents...it's the end of the world...
Its never just (50 Cents).............
"oh, boo hoo....we might have to pay an extra 50 cents...it's the end of the world..."
It is not just 50 cents. It is 50 cents every time, which adds up. If it isn't the end of the world, why are these restaurants in danger of going out of business? So obviously it is not just 50 cents to those who have to pay the bill.
so cook your own food. ...this new law was the result of a democratic process.
Are you sarcastic...dumb...? Mob rule sucks.
Without a customer, you will have no food to eat.
How we liking them apples?
RIPS
Which restaurant do you wash dishes for?
Fifty cents ain't shit. That's like half a penny in today's dollar.
Dude what is up with her face? And who names their kid Shavonda?
Her parents.
Her Negro parents. Show some balls.
Dunno, it would be difficult to choose from amonst Sheniqua and Sharonda. Den agin, Sha-ne-ne has a good beat to it.
Acquaintance works in Medicine she has actually seen the female name: Chlamydia, no urban legend that..
I knew a crack ho named that....
Negros
And who names their kid Shavonda?
Her full name is Shavonda Dumpsta Sumter
When the nurse brought her out and asked what to name her, her mama said, "Don't axe me. Shove er unda da dumpster"
Not true. Kids with no dads come with checks from the nanny state. She probably has six or seven brothers and sisters with no dad and equally novel names.
They have a lot more chemicals in the water up in Neew Jorsey and that is what you are seeing in her face---a much lower IQ than average!
Well gas will be cheap. Just no one will have money
How about a novel idea like reducing state and muni gov't expeditures which means reduced taxes across the board...
You'd probably have a higher chance of contracting Ebola than the gov'ts considering that action.
Anyone who thinks politicians and bureaucrats are working on our behalf deserve both Ebola and Obamacare. They will learn, probably too late, how the system really works.
Sorreee - Ebolans are not on the Obamacare list.
Bullshit. BBB, SBA and the restaurants lobbied for illegals, so now you hire 20 beaners for each kitchen and pay them under the table.
Same old same old.
You are right. Underground Economy is going to get huge in the USA over the next couple of years..
raising minimum wage in the face of deflation - good idea Barry
no wonder the secret service doesn't do a good job around you
Simple fix, tip tax. The business keeps 20% of all tips.
Done and done.
Just looked up the LinkedIn bio of one Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter: link
Undergrad was at prestigious Kean University in 1996. She received an "MBA" from some place called Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2002, worked on the business side of hospitals afterwards and then became assemblywoman.
Nothing in this background suggests she is knowledgable about small business economics or, frankly, any kind of economics.
She is Exhibit A for why a representative democracy fails in the long run. Doctors need to be accredited to do their jobs. Likewise for CPAs, lawyers and other professions in which a lot is riding on the outcomes.
Yet any jackass can get elected and have purview over billions of dollars of economic activity. Make sense to anyone?
Kean is a community college with dorm rooms.
FDU is a community college for rich kids.
Let me summarize this for you guys,they're lower tier colleges that are one tick above the private scam schools like Devry
Shavondra is raking in the big bucks and it's not doing a thing for her. So why bother giving somebody a $1.20 an hour raise.
Always the problem with a top-down centrally planned economy.
We could pay everyone $20/hour and it wouldn't be enough to pay the inflated costs of healthcare, higher education, insurance, utilities, gas, housing, etc., etc., etc.
So of course people are pushing for more pay; shit's too expensive and there are no market prices because of central banking, bailouts, and bureaucracy.
We get the government we deserve.
Bullshit.
I hope Shavonda meets with an untimely accident along with any other politician of her ilk.
And I'm thinking of you Sheila Jackson Lee. (SheeJack) The fucking cunt gollywog from hell....
Who is "We"? That is really at the heart of the question here and is the debate "we" (smart people) should really be having!
These ¨min. wages¨ ¨socialism¨ talk always make me laugh.
Want a FREE and SUSTAINABLE job market?. Well, get the min. wage concept out of the vocabulary, and implement a business-like cost/profit MANDATORY method for wages calculation, based on workers cost of living, education, growth, etc (since it is selling his services to others) and everyone will have a great and just life.
Full-scale capitalism ftw.
Really?
Do tell....
Someone else on another blog...like huff POS
Thank you come again.
RIPS
whats the problem?
Unintended consequences are frequently catastrophic .
See a mistake of mountainous proportions :
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/04/vardzia-unintended-consequences_24...
two mitigating factors. much of local business is not local anymore so the local multiplier is much less than it used to be so the added wages won't stay local for long. in other words walmart benefits more than the local economy ezcept for a coupla more minimum wage jobs. the other thing is the lag time between the raise and those eventual few jobs at walmart so the initial effect will certainly be negative.
if we were in even an 80s economy much of that new wage money would stay local and create 6 times the money the raise added employing a number of people who would will spend more and create jobs themselves. the idea being that the market would be immune to a small rise in restaurant prices because of the added economic activity.
So everyone thinks that they should go to a restaurant and decide if they want to pay for their meal or not? That is how the people who work for tips are being treated. If you get paid only $2.13/hr because it is assumed someone else will pay you for waiting on them then why not let the customers decide what to pay for the meal after paying the $2.13 salary of the waiter? How would the small business owner like that? What is the difference?
Idjit.
How about they just make it so that they don't have to declare their tips as income?
Wasn't she Kip's girlfriend from Napoleon Dynamite?
Shovonna should just shove a bone thru her nose and get back to twirling her shit in her food pile like the rest of the zoo gorillas and quit pretending, along with Moochie that they are humans.
Mom and Pop better get to work!!
That is actually the way it always has been in real mom and pop businesses. The family does all the jobs. It's the way a lot of Chinese restaurants work. Then they all share in the benefits.
New Jersy? Run Forrest, Run!
Free Market Solution:
1. Sterilize all entitlement program recipients, ghetto garbage, etc.
2. Population declines, supply of no/low skill labor declines, wages go up.
Additional benefit: reduction in income taxes, crimes, election of cockroach scumbag parasites, etc
Better yet, if you are accepting Federal assistance (housing voucher, EBT, free fone) you voluntarily relinquish your right to vote until you have been off the dole for 3 consecutive months.
Absolutely!
Taking charity is one thing: it is voluntarily given assistance.
Taking welfare is another: it is the transfer of stolen money.
In a society that stands by and allows any type of forced transfer payment, the right of a recipient to vote (and expand such systematic theft) becomes a personal license to steal.
Besides, why would you let someone who can't manage their own life participate in the management of a nation?
...on second thought, there might actually be a legal (and constitutional) way of blocking the right to vote.
Being in a state of incapacity bars an individual from assuming contractual obligations and from engaging in many other activities. It would be necessary then to merely develop a broader notion of capacity to address the failure to plan a self sufficient future and carry it through.
...so, you demontrate a lack of capacity by taking money stolen from others by the government? You lose your right to vote until that changes. Ehhh?
Then too, I don't think many "entitlement" recipients would really care one way or the other.
I am all for mandatory sterilization until you can prove you're worthy and able to raise kids
But that's You-genics! Alex Jones says that's evil.
/sarc
Shavonda Sumter doesnt strike me as someone who gets it.
She GETS yo money!
Listen Zero's.
You cannot say racist things, you cannot say anti-Bangalorian things either, you cannot say things that "COULD" be construed as "HATRED".
Let's clean up your thoughts and post nice things.
Wow finally! A self-correcting marketplace! Keep it up folks!
I have lived in Northern NJ for 40 years.
Very affluent town - very many eateries and very few liquor licenses - 1 license for 5 places - there rest are BYO.
I remain dumbfounded about how busy all of these places are:
officer workers having lunch; many commuters with families having dinner
many business lunches and dinners
never-ending - mostly everything full and pricey
here, the proposed wage price hike won't make a dent in the restaurant business - there are no chain restaurants in this town
Just like the guy in Lawrenceville, NJ - the help here already makes very good money
People in Jersey make good money: This is the place where everything is manufactured:
from derivatives to med tech equipment and more
The base rate for an independent grass-cutter, landscaper is $35 per hour
Plumbers and other tradesmen are looking for $100 per hour
I can compare with Southern Vermont:
A skilled VT worker (carpenter) working for someone gets $20 per hour; independent carpenter gets $30 to $35
The self-employed VT plumber is gunning for $70/hour
Ok, NJ real estate costs 3 to 5 times more to rent or own than VT real estate. But, all other prices are about the same.
A draft beer in VT goes for $5/glass - In Jersey, it is $6 to possibly $7. The funny thing is that entrées in restaurants of comparable ambiance cost just about the same in VT and NJ.
What I am trying to say is that in North Jersey, people have much more disposable income. In VT, the average person is just scraping by and hardly visits bars anymore.
NJ has money because of the Fed pprinting press....
The place has the highest exodus rate of every state because it costs too much to live here
you either have a good corporate/wall st job, in union or work for the govt
the average guys are getting squeezed and leaving in droves.
New Jersey keeps voting for these people, they deserve what they get.
GTFO for a free state.
This is an excellent case for limited government. As some earlier commenters have noted is that you do not have any particular skill set, knowledge set or certification for elective office. Yet, once you are there you have access to pretty much everything in the economic world given that government is really not limited very much in the modern USSA.
So, Shavonda and a bunch of other "caring" twits get together and pick a wage that sounds good and makes for good election sound bites, claiming to care about the little guy. Meanwhile they have no idea and actually no real concern for what will happen. They don't care because they presume it will not affect them personally. In fact, bad economic decisions that are popular could easily increase their odds of reelection. It could actually be in a politician's personal interest to do things that damage or kill an economy. We should all let that sink in.
In a country with actual property rights and true civil rights the government has no standing in a private labor contract. You work for as little or as much as you like and an employer pays whatever they think it takes to attract a good worker. The ability to set minimum wage is also the ability to set a maximum wage and it has been done several times.
Selfish, economic illiterates like Shavonda do not see ripple effects nor do they care. Do you think for a moment she would listen to ANY counterargument? Not likely. So, if the entry level guy at minimum wage gets a 20% increase, what do you do for: the guy who's been there 90 days, the shift leader, the team leader, the assistant manager, the manager, the janitor, the bus boy, and twenty others? Generally speaking they all get a raise or seniority, skill and loyalty begin to matter less and less.
If Shavonda and pals drive another 400 businesses under what repercussions does Shavonda personally suffer? None. In fact, the predilection will be to put someone on TV who talks about how much better his/her life is with the wage increase but not interview 3000 others who are now unemployed...and on the public assistance rolls.
This is what will kill a democracy. When you go from a Republic with strict limits on power to an unlimited Democracy you will gravitate toward the lowest common denominator type decisions. Do you suppose a Democracy can vote on how to fix the flaw in a jet's turbine engines? Yet, can the Democracy with unlimited power control the manufacture of those engines? You bet and not one of them need be an engineer.
We will all get the government that the 51% deserve.
We need to pay all fry cooks, cashiers and dishwashers at least 10.10 an hour. How else are they going to be able to pay back their college loans.
$2/hour - yeah, they are due a raise. No kidding. I made really good money working at an expensive French restaurant - if you worked 13 hours they paid you for 8, but they always fed you. We vacumned the floors, made drinks, made expresso, no busboys or anything. Really expensive with great wine list... even though they screwed on the hours, they still paid min and we kept our tips.
Reminds me of a famous steakhouse in MA I visited in 09 after the crash. On TV it looked so cool, but the huge parking lot was empty and it smelled of rotting food.
http://www.hilltopsteakhouse.com/
Us humans are dumb, huh?
Like dumping food in the Great Depression.
After it goes...
Let's fix this thing ZHrs.
Instead of complaining about a paltry raise of minimum wage for hard-working exploited labor that get no benefits, why not institute a maximum wage for all public employees and elected officials, say something like $15.00-$20.00 per hour and no benefits?????
(do I hear the screams??)
I award you an up vote for your interesting thought. High government pay with its plethora of benefits has driven pay for years. Small business cannot compete with what government offers. Sadly the government does not have to balance its books but can tax and borrow to survive.
Boo Hoo New Jersey. I own and operate a restaurant in Northern California. Minimum wage just went up to 9.00 per hour. Tipped or not. It's killing me. And everytime the payroll goes up so does the Workers Comp and my liability insurance.
While I'm strongly against raising the minimum wage because it will make America less competitive and slow job growth, I concede the debate is destined to continue until it is raised. I hereby state without a doubt, the minimum wage will go up! Polls show a majority of Americans support this idea.
It is my feeling that many people believe the myth this will put more money into the consumers pocket and create economic growth. They fail to recognize it will also spark inflation while reducing opportunity. New twist and wrinkles are being added by the White House and supporters of this increase every week. Expanding the number of workers eligible for overtime pay is another attempt to push this along. Unfortunately much of the impact and pain will directly fall upon small business the real creator of jobs. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-minimum-wage-will-go-up-right...