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A Coming-Out Movement for the Poor?
GRITtv / Video Interview
Published: Friday 1 June 2012
A working class coming out movement might be just what this country needs.
According to Governor Andrew Cuomo the minimum wage in New York is harder than passing marriage equality. If this is true a question comes to mind. Is it all only about the money? Could it be that there’s something we need, namely a coming-out movement about poverty in America? Democrats in the New York state Assembly have passed a bill in order to raise the minimum wage from the federal $7.25 to $8.50 an hour. Unfortuantely, there is likely to be no passing a minimum wage hike through the Republican controlled Senate. So this bill will be stuck for the rest of the session. “This is broader and a deeper divide,” Cuomo said. “Marriage, in some ways, was more of a personal judgment for people on their personal values. A working class coming out movement might be just what this country needs.
2 comments on "A Coming-Out Movement for the Poor?"
June 02, 2012 9:26am
I find it funny that no one has never thought of promoting a progressive minmum wage. I believe that if a person is in a deadend minimum wage job, that when they tun 25 yrs of age they get a $.50/hr raise, and when they turn 30 yrs of age they get another $.50/hr raise and so on. Maybe by the time they get to middle age they are earning a decent living wage.
June 01, 2012 2:18pm
$8.50 per hour would hardly be a living wage for new York State.
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