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A move by Kentucky State Senators to raise the minimum wage.

BR 148 - Senator Ernesto Scorsone, Senator Walter Blevins Jr, Senator David E Boswell, Senator Julian M Carroll, Senator Perry B Clark, Senator Denise Harper Angel, Senator Daniel Mongiardo, Senator Joey Pendleton, Senator Dorsey Ridley, Senator Tim Shaughnessy (08/31/06)      AN ACT relating to the minimum wage.      Amend KRS 337.275 to increase the state minimum wage to $5.85 an hour on the effective date of this Act, to $6.55 an hour effective July 1, 2008, and to $7.25 an hour effective July 1, 2009; and increase to the federal minimum wage rate if that rate exceeds the state minimum wage rate.      (Prefiled by the sponsor(s).)      To: Interim Joint Committee on Labor and Industry

Comments

[Bill Day]

Your heart is in the right place. I wish more people were like us. I do want to ask about minimum wage. Why do they keep so low? Isn't the point to have people live a good life. I couldn't live on $7.50 an hour. That is below the poverty line. Our government should at least double that. We should be making the average income in the US. I think it is like $30k per year. Why don't we just get people to pay a higher minimum wage?