Minimum Wage Rate Up In North Carolina

   The minimum wage  ($5.15) in North Carolina will be going up to $6.15 an hour effective January 1st. This is good news to the 144,000 of workers who make the minimum wage at their jobs.

    For tipped employees, the cash rate will go up from $2.13 per hour to $3.13 per hour.

    Also beginning January 1st, Nevada's  rate will increase from $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour. Nevada has a two-tiered system in place depending on whether the employee has insurance or not.  More

   Vermont  weighs in with a wage rate hike going from $7.25 per hour to $7.53 per hour. Cash wage for tipped employees stays at $3.65 per hour.

   It is a good thing that somebody's wages are going up in this country other than CEO's and politicians!

   Someone in North Carolina made the statement that a family living on $6.15 an hour would get more out of their money if they learned how to budget. I'm sorry, but it is kind of difficult to do a budget on pay such as this. You have no budget because after food, clothing, rent and the other necessities that one needs, you have nothing to budget with!

    If you want to make life a little easier for many people, jack that wage up by a few dollars and to hell with the corporations which are making money hand over fist and treating their people like dirt!

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What Do We Expect In 2007?

    According to a recent poll done by the A.P., we see 2007 looking pretty gloomy.

Only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with
Iran or
North Korea over those countries' nuclear ambitions. An overwhelming majority of those surveyed think Congress will raise the federal minimum wage. One-third see hope for a cure to cancer.

Six in 10 people think the U.S. will be the victim of a terrorist attack. An identical percentage thinks it likely that a biological or nuclear weapon will be unleashed somewhere else in the world.

Seventy percent of people in the U.S. predict a major natural disaster in the country and an equal percentage expects worsening global warming. Also, 29 percent think it likely that the U.S. will withdraw its troops from
Iraq.

Among other predictions for the U.S. in 2007:

_35 percent predict the military draft will be reinstated.

_35 percent predict a cure for cancer will be found.

_25 percent anticipate the second coming of Jesus Christ.

_19 percent think scientists are likely to find evidence of extraterrestrial life.         >  From the A.P.

    Bush did say the he was in favor of raising the minimum wage but he also wants some protections for small business. You can read that as wanting some kind of tax cut! Let us not forget that we had no wage increase a little while back because Bush tried to wedge a few more breaks for the rich into the bill and he will no doubt try it again.

    The Democrats are saying that the wage increase bill would be presented on its own. GO DEMS!!

 

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