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Related: About this forumOhio Minimum Wage Increase to $8.70/ hour
Source--https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/26/ohio-s-minimum-wage-will-get-a-boost-in-2020.html
snip--The states minimum wage will rise 15 cents an hour from $8.55 to $8.70 when the calendar switches to 2020. Workers who receive tips will see an increase in minimum pay from $4.30 an hour to $4.35.
snip--The states minimum wage is $1.45 more than the federal minimum wage, which sits at $7.25 per hour. That rate has been unchanged for 10 years.
More at article.
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marble falls
(62,079 posts)Ohiogal
(34,711 posts)That should really ignite our economy ...
Sanity Claws
(22,038 posts)If the person works 40 hours a week, that means an increase of $6 per week. That is not going to lift a person out of poverty.
Ohiogal
(34,711 posts)Ohios legislators gave themselves a much more generous raise!
https://radio.wosu.org/post/ohio-lawmakers-vote-themselves-pay-raise#stream/0
Unfortunately, a poison pill was added to [the bill] which allows every politician in Ohio to receive a 25 percent pay increase and does nothing to help Ohioans whose wages have been stagnant for years, he said.
This should be shouted from the rooftops, Ohio journalists and media!
badhair77
(4,621 posts)Does Ohio have a full time or part-time legislature?
irisblue
(34,270 posts)From Ballotpedia-
https://ballotpedia.org/Comparison_of_state_legislative_salaries
Legislature pay-$60,584/year No per diem is paid., Leadership gets more $
getagrip_already
(17,440 posts)For workers making tips, it's up to $4.75.
We also have rec legal cannabis, and reasonably strong gun control.
Our world hasn't ended. It isn't expected to end. There isn't any social outrage from the business community.
We do have an affordable housing shortage, and rents are sky high, so it isn't utopia. Oh, and we have a LOT of koch trained astroturf being laid out in communities across the commonwealth.
But it ain't Ohio either.......
irisblue
(34,270 posts)getagrip_already
(17,440 posts)didn't mean to dis you. There is hope.....
irisblue
(34,270 posts)I live in Columbus, the urban areas here are very very different from the surrounding 'burbs & the ruby red rural areas.
I have lived here since 89, the changes I see are amazing.
Besides, you got Legal Seafood, all over the place, and I am freaking JEALOUS