Mamdani won the House minority leader's district by double digits in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, prompting one critic to ask, "Do those voters not matter?"
What made you come to that conclusion? That’s a perfectly fair minimum wage for a place as expensive as NYC. And it could be passed by the city council and signed by the mayor. Adams just vetoed a bill trying to raise the app worker minimum wage to $22/hour or so. $30 is only 1/3 more than this, and Mamdani proposed implementing it over several years. I think you may just be suffering from jealousy, and ignoring that this is in the context of NYC, where $60k/year is not a lot of money.
A third increase is the kind of increase to the minimum wage that has happened countless times. It happens in any place that the minimum wage isn’t indexed to inflation. It isn’t until there’s been a substantial degradation in the earning power of minimum wage earners that there’s enough political pressure to have a hope of actually getting a minimum wage increase through. The business lobby will always resist any increase. And minimum wage earners don’t really have a lot of political capital.
What made you come to that conclusion? That’s a perfectly fair minimum wage for a place as expensive as NYC. And it could be passed by the city council and signed by the mayor. Adams just vetoed a bill trying to raise the app worker minimum wage to $22/hour or so. $30 is only 1/3 more than this, and Mamdani proposed implementing it over several years. I think you may just be suffering from jealousy, and ignoring that this is in the context of NYC, where $60k/year is not a lot of money.
Because it would never happen. Only one third more?
Listen, if you “only” got one third more money next paycheck you’d be pretty stoked
A third increase is the kind of increase to the minimum wage that has happened countless times. It happens in any place that the minimum wage isn’t indexed to inflation. It isn’t until there’s been a substantial degradation in the earning power of minimum wage earners that there’s enough political pressure to have a hope of actually getting a minimum wage increase through. The business lobby will always resist any increase. And minimum wage earners don’t really have a lot of political capital.
But $22 didn’t pass, did it?