Sentences with phrase «smaller wage proposal»

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In his ambitious second term agenda, announced during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, President Obama raised a proposal that made small business owners sit up and take notice: an increase in the minimum wage to $ 9 from its current $ 7.25.

Although the federal minimum wage has not risen since 2007 — and not for a full decade prior — the President's proposal, which also indexes the wage to inflation, riled a lot of small business advocates.

As part of the survey, SurePayroll asked small business owners about the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 9 per hour.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

«While firm details remain elusive on the paid leave and minimum wage proposals, it is becoming clear that the path Albany is taking will be disastrous for New York's small employers,» said NFIB State Director Mike Durant.

National Federation of Independent Business State Director Mike Durant said in a phone interview that the combination of the minimum wage and small - business proposals sent a «fairly perplexing» message and called Sunday difficult to swallow.

He says Cuomo's proposal to push the state's minimum wage up to $ 15 an hours simply is not based on the reality of small business economics.

«Forcing small business owners to shoulder an unprecedented $ 15 minimum wage burden will have greater negative ramifications than the governor's tax cut proposal can make up for,» said Brandon Muir, executive director of Reclaim New York Center for Government Reform and Accountability.

The governor's push for both a hike in the minimum wage and paid family leave faces an uphill battle in the Republican - controlled Senate, and business groups argue that both proposals would be burdensome for small business owners.

«Between a modest tax proposal that excludes the vast majority of small business to another massive minimum wage hike, the governor has summed up his small business agenda perfectly: disjointed and dramatically missing the mark.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo has spent the days leading up to this joint State of the State and budget message rolling out a number of new programs and proposals, including an anti poverty agenda that includes raising the minimum wage, and tax cuts for small businesses.

Cuomo has spent the last several days unveiling his 2015 legislative proposals ranging from a new hike in the minimum wage to a small - business tax cut along with a «circuit - breaker» solution on property taxes.

Business owners have contested this, saying that the small companies that run the McDonalds and Taco Bells are little different than the mom and pop burger joints that would avoid the wage hike under Cuomo's proposal.