{"id":795,"date":"2005-09-02T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/795\/"},"modified":"2005-09-02T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T20:16:43","slug":"795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/795\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Minimum Wage Hike Pressed, Could End Up On The Legislature's Calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/386431nm09-02-05.htm\">ABQjournal: Minimum Wage Hike Pressed, Could End Up On The Legislature&#8217;s Calendar<\/a> By Barry Massey<br \/>\nThe Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Increasing the minimum wage is a proven way to decrease poverty,&#8221; Gerry Bradley, an economist with New Mexico Voices for Children, said Thursday in releasing a report critical of the state&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong>A greater share of New Mexicans &#8212; about 6 percent &#8212; work in jobs paying at or below the minimum wage than any other state in the nation<\/strong>, he said.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;The bottom line is New Mexico&#8217;s economy is not an engine for opportunity and prosperity for far too many of our working families. A staggering 43 percent of New Mexicans live at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level,&#8221; said Bradley. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are 16 states and the District of Columbia with minimum wages above the federal level, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>    The state of Washington has a $7.35 an hour minimum wage, which is adjusted yearly for inflation. Oregon is next with a $7.25-an-hour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anybody know which the other 14 states are? Have they all gone to hell as a result of raising the minimum wage? mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Minimum Wage Hike Pressed, Could End Up On The Legislature&#8217;s Calendar By Barry Massey The Associated Press &#8220;Increasing the minimum wage is a proven way to decrease poverty,&#8221; Gerry Bradley, an economist with New Mexico Voices for Children, said Thursday in releasing a report critical of the state&#8217;s economy. A greater share of New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/795\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/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-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}