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Interview: Sen. Hawley wants separate minimum wage hike, calls for immediate tax credit for blue-collar workers (VIDEO)

March 5, 2021 By Ashley Byrd

Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley voted Friday against adding a minimum wage hike to the current COVID-19 relief bill in the Senate, but is calling for a higher minimum wage — and a tax credit — for some blue-collar workers.

Hawley, in a stand-alone bill, would require companies that make more than $1 billion annually to pay a $15 starting wage. In the meantime, his “Blue Collar Bonus Tax Credit” plan would give workers a bonus directly through an automatic, advanceable tax credit tied to hours worked.

He says this takes the burden off of small businesses and should be the “focus of the stimulus package.”

Hawley explained his bills, speaking from Washington with Missourinet’s Ashley Byrd:

https://cdn.missourinet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hawley_feb25_Missourinet_web.mp4

Filed Under: Business, News, Politics / Govt Tagged With: 15 dollar minimum wage, Blue Collar Tax Credit, coronavirus stimulus package, Minimum Wage, Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley

Minimum wage to increase in 2014

November 8, 2013 By Mike Lear

Missourians making minimum wage will get a raise January 1.

The Missouri Department of Labor has announced the state’s minimum wage will increase 15 cents from $7.35 to $7.50 at the start of the new year.

State law requires minimum wage be calculated annually and could increase or decrease based on cost of living as measured by the previous year’s Consumer Price Index. The state minimum wage also can not be lower than the federal.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Minimum Wage

Sides in Minimum Wage Ballot Initiative Engage in All-Out Campaigning

October 29, 2006 By admin Leave a Comment

Election Day is drawing closer and the sides in the minimum wage ballot initiative are doing what they can to get out their messages. Approval of Proposition B would raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.50 an hour and would tie future increases to the cost of living.

Gary Marble, President of Associated Industries of Missouri, is a spokesman for the Save Our State’s Jobs Coalition – which opposes the wage hike. He argues the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage, adding there are very few minimum wage earners who are family bread winners.

Sara Howard with the Give Missourians A Raise Coalition rejects the claim that there are few bread winners earning the minimum wage. She says a good precentage of those making the minimum are responsible for families.

Marble says raising the wage to $6.50 would be something many businesses could accept, but he fears the part of the initiative that would index the wage in the future. Howard, on the other hand, says that while $6.50 is a good beginning, inflationary pressures must be taken into account. That, she says, is why the indexing is essential.

Missouri’s minimum wage is tied to the federal minimum wage, which has been $5.15 an hour since 1997.

Interview with Gary Marble
Audio

Interview with Sarah Howard
howard.mp3

Filed Under: Business, Politics / Govt Tagged With: Elections, Minimum Wage



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