Los Angeles, California, passed a phased-in minimum wage hike ordinance on May 27, 2025. Nicknamed “Olympic Wage” in advance of the Olympics, minimum wages for the hotel industry will be set at $30 per hour by 2028. However, this move is already negatively impacting the people it was intended to help. Hours are being cut, hotel restaurants are being closed, and planned improvements are either being delayed or cancelled. The workers who are losing their jobs are the ones who the ordinance was supposed to help.
I keep saying, the minimum wage is always the same, zero. Since the wage was less than $1.65 an hour, every increase has eliminated entry level jobs. There used to be so many “first steps” to a decent job, janitors in factories and shops, gas station employees, entry level jobs at stores and markets, apprentices in trades, domestic employees. There are so few now and they are determined to raise that first step out of reach.
I hired a number of handicapped or limited people, or high risk candidates like ex cons or recovering addicts or alcoholics, to give them a chance. I just could not do that today, too expensive to take the chance.
A blessed Sabbath, Gerbil Nation!
Thread pic: I don’t know, I’m too bleary-eyed to see.
Off to church. C’y’all when I get back.
Hi, Paddy -- good morning, GN.
Thread pic: That might be the way to go.
I saw this headline and thought it had to be the Babylon Bee -- who would steal money so that they could go see the WNBA???
The great California experiment.
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=180216
I keep saying, the minimum wage is always the same, zero. Since the wage was less than $1.65 an hour, every increase has eliminated entry level jobs. There used to be so many “first steps” to a decent job, janitors in factories and shops, gas station employees, entry level jobs at stores and markets, apprentices in trades, domestic employees. There are so few now and they are determined to raise that first step out of reach.
I hired a number of handicapped or limited people, or high risk candidates like ex cons or recovering addicts or alcoholics, to give them a chance. I just could not do that today, too expensive to take the chance.
Hi, Mac -- yeah, it’s the “living wage” bs.
I deserve to be supported in the manner to which I wish to become accustomed to.