Sentences with phrase «too high a minimum wage»

«In the past, small business was trying to prevent bad things, like too high a minimum wage,» says Howard.

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Because many companies employing low - wage workers face too much competition to pass the increased labor cost on to customers, a higher minimum wage would mean lower small business profits or costly investment in labor saving equipment.

It sets the average hourly wage target for the minimum wage too high at 60 %.

Bruce Rauner, Governor of Illinois, is quite right to veto that $ 15 minimum wage, it's just much too high for the conditions in the state.

Likewise, the NDP called for a higher minimum wage and a tax structure that shares the cost of running a province fairly, both items that are expected to be in today's throne speech too.

As examples, Hawkins said that Cuomo's implementation of $ 15 minimum wage is too slow and incomplete upstate, while his Excelsior Scholarship Program falls far short of universal tuition - free public higher education.

Cuomo, who only last year scoffed that the $ 15 minimum wage being sought by Assembly Democrats was too high, this year made it a top priority as he has tried to repair his relationship with the liberal wing of his Party.

A single person may well be able to get by on minimum wage (if their rent isn't too high and they don't buy good quality groceries or eat out a lot... — If you don't count tuition, I spent less than $ 20k last year and that includes a flight across Canada).