Mamdani won the House minority leader's district by double digits in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, prompting one critic to ask, "Do those voters not matter?"
A third increase is the kind of increase to the minimum wage that has happened countless times. It happens in any place that the minimum wage isn’t indexed to inflation. It isn’t until there’s been a substantial degradation in the earning power of minimum wage earners that there’s enough political pressure to have a hope of actually getting a minimum wage increase through. The business lobby will always resist any increase. And minimum wage earners don’t really have a lot of political capital.
Because it would never happen. Only one third more?
Listen, if you “only” got one third more money next paycheck you’d be pretty stoked
A third increase is the kind of increase to the minimum wage that has happened countless times. It happens in any place that the minimum wage isn’t indexed to inflation. It isn’t until there’s been a substantial degradation in the earning power of minimum wage earners that there’s enough political pressure to have a hope of actually getting a minimum wage increase through. The business lobby will always resist any increase. And minimum wage earners don’t really have a lot of political capital.