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SF becomes first US city to top $10 minimum wage

source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141561

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SF becomes first US city to top $10 minimum wage

By BETH DUFF-BROWN, Associated Press – Mon Dec 12, 9:21 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO – David Frias works two minimum-wage jobs to squeak by in one of the most expensive cities in America.

Come New Year's Day, he'll have a few more coins in his pocket as San Francisco makes history by becoming the first city in the nation to scale a $10 minimum wage. The city's hourly wage for its lowest-paid workers will hit $10.24, more than $2 above the California minimum wage and nearly $3 more than the working wage set by the federal government.

It won't put much more in Frias' wallet. But it gives him a sense of moving on up.

"It's a psychological boost," said Frias, who is a 34-year-old usher at a movie theater and a security guard for a crowd control firm. "It means that I'll have more money in my wallet to pay my bills and money to spend in the city to help the economy."

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http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111212/ap_on_bi_ge/us_sf_minimum_wage

"It's about time, and to be Honest no one can get ahead on $10.00's an Hour!!!"
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10 comments // SF becomes first US city to top $10 minimum wage

  • Konkey__Dong
  • dugdog47
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      dugdog47  

    • Hello kb. Good to see you back.

      I'm all for a living wage, however, raising minum wage is not the answer,imo. I propose it should be based on age, experience, and work history. A 16 year old working at McDonalds doesn't need to make as much as a single mother. Thats when you run into the problem of companies hiring less and increasing prices. Almost as if inflation begins at min. wage, you raise it and all prices go up, so nothing was really gained.

    • 6 months ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • dugdog47:

      Nice to see you again as well dugdog47, I think you hit the nail on the head, so what that leaves us is a means of finding a better way??? Any Suggestions???

    • 6 months ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • Gottta love that caption, KB723. Though not carried to the extreme that
      the 3rd Reich did at Buchenvald, and Auschweitz, the Nazi Fascists also
      said the same thing. The sign hung up across the death camps specified:
      " Atbeiten macht frei " ( working hard will set you free ) If a Jewish captive
      didn't work hard they were beaten. If they did work hard they went to an
      early grave because they were malnourished. What the Nazis had in mind
      of course is the freedom which only death brings. The globalists have the
      same idea here. They want to reduce the prevailing wage to the minimum
      to profit to the max. That's why the export American jobs to the 3rd world.
      They work for slave wages in sweat shops far below the minimum wage
      here which begrudges people a living. Hence it's called minimum wage
      instead of living wage. The Corporatists will pay their workers a pittance
      to get them to work more hours for cheaper to get more out of them.
      Must be expensive to live in a large city like San Francisco though, as
      it is in most large cities. As wages are pinned to rents, I'd expect the
      folks living in San Francisco have to have be paid more to afford the
      higher loving expenses, same for Boston or New York City.

    • 6 months ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • PressCore:

      I apologize if the caption may offend anyone, I did not post it with that message at hand... I just did a google images and I found that one... At the top of many mind you, however, I do agree that that is exactly the intention, and lets not forget or maybe it's just my opinion, but we have fallen to a third world country, we have just not yet elected our Dictator, or perhaps we have and have not yet realized it??? Funny how they seem to think that having to work three jobs would not allow the money for folks to buy Ammo??? Or to make sure folks cannot own guns??? Ever wonder 'Who' is more Frightened???

      BTW, please feel free to call me KB... =)

    • 6 months ago
  • percipi224
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      percipi224  
    • KB723:

      you say we haven't elected our dictator yet? You understand the Occupy motive behind "we are all leaders" and the horizontal approach. That way the powers that be can't take down our "leader" and kill or undermine the movement. The same goes for the elite. Our dictators, plural, are the 400 billionares and 1300 multinational corps. that join forces in foundations, IMF WTO EUzone etc. The complexes of industry that no longer compete but collude on prices and agendas to extract as much as possible out of us. They use our own people against us in the police. We have multiple dictators so we can't take out their leader in a war. It truly will come down to us against them as they buy our "elected" leaders. Plural.

    • 6 months ago
  • KB723
  • KB723
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      KB723  

    • SF becomes first US city to top $10 minimum wage

      "It's a psychological boost," said Frias, who is a 34-year-old usher at a movie theater and a security guard for a crowd control firm. "It means that I'll have more money in my wallet to pay my bills and money to spend in the city to help the economy."

    • 6 months ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • KB723:

      Having been a citizen of both Texas, and Colorado, I regard myself as
      a hard core Westerner, and I want to live out West again someday when
      I can. I aim to own a Henry, a modern Sharps, and a Browning .45 or a
      9 Mil Glock. As the group sings it: " Shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip "

    • 6 months ago
  • KB723
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