{"id":716,"date":"2005-06-23T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/dump-sue-wilson-beffort\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:48:56","slug":"dump-sue-wilson-beffort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/dump-sue-wilson-beffort\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump Sue Wilson Beffort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"alibi . june 16 - 22, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alibi.com\/editorial\/section_display.php?di=2005-06-16&amp;scn=news#11947\">alibi . june 16 &#8211; 22, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One state senator did attempt to deal with the issue during this year&#8217;s legislative session. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, who represents northeast Albuquerque and is a former board member of the Chamber, sponsored a bill (SB 535) that would have prohibited any municipality from enacting a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum. The bill did not pass.<\/p>\n<p>Beffort said the true intention of the minimum wage is to jumpstart young and unskilled workers into the workforce, and eventually higher paying jobs. <b>Her response to lower-paid employees who have been in the workforce for many years: &#8220;Shame on them.&#8221;<\/b>? Beffort adds that there are numerous federal and state funded training programs available for unskilled workers (such as the Education Works Act, which provides assistance for lower-income workers seeking trade degrees), and <b>it&#8217;s their own fault<\/b> if they don&#8217;t take advantage of them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vote out this insensitive fool. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alibi . june 16 &#8211; 22, 2005 One state senator did attempt to deal with the issue during this year&#8217;s legislative session. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, who represents northeast Albuquerque and is a former board member of the Chamber, sponsored a bill (SB 535) that would have prohibited any municipality from enacting a minimum wage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/dump-sue-wilson-beffort\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dump Sue Wilson Beffort<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}