Blowing Sunshine…
Calling it “a ray of economic sunshine”, Doug Chuck Sheketoff at Blue Oregon heralds Oregon’s impending minimum wage hike from $7.95 to $8.40, marveling over the fact that it will mean “an extra $936 a year for a family with one full-time minimum wage worker.”
As one person in the comments section of his post mentions, this is probably going to have consequences for small employers who may have to cut hours (or even jobs) to continue to make the bottom line.
Almost comically, another commenter replies that, in order to offset the harm of the wage increase, business owners should… you know… just raise prices a little bit.
And the wheel goes ’round…
[EDIT 09/17]
Apologies to Chuck Sheketoff for somehow mixing up his first name. Fixed now.
