Category: Minimum Wage

  • Grassley Spins The Post Crazy

    Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is whining that the new minimum wage compromise doesn\’t have enough tax favors for business. From CQ Today (subscription required): “The Senate package was barely adequate,” [Grassley] said in a statement. “I called it peanuts. The House package was puny. I called it a peanut shell. Now we have a single…

  • Grassley Spins W. Post Dizzy

    Yesterday, I noted that Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is whining that the new minimum wage compromise doesn\’t have enough tax favors for business. From CQ Today (subscription required): “The Senate package was barely adequate,” [Grassley] said in a statement. “I called it peanuts. The House package was puny. I called it a peanut shell. Now…

  • Grassley Spins W. Post Dizzy

    Yesterday, I noted that Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is whining that the new minimum wage compromise doesn\’t have enough tax favors for business. From CQ Today (subscription required): “The Senate package was barely adequate,” [Grassley] said in a statement. “I called it peanuts. The House package was puny. I called it a peanut shell. Now…

  • Minimum Wage Compromise Reached

    Congressional leaders took a big step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge late Friday, reconciling House-Senate differences in their minimum wage bills. The two chambers split the difference on the size of business tax breaks, ending up at $4.8 billion. The ideal would have been zero, to reject conservative claims that any raise for low-income workers…

  • Minimum Wage Compromise Reached

    Congressional leaders took a big step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge late Friday, reconciling House-Senate differences in their minimum wage bills. The two chambers split the difference on the size of business tax breaks, ending up at $4.8 billion. The ideal would have been zero, to reject conservative claims that any raise for low-income workers…

  • The Conservatives\’ \”Secular Problem\”

    Today through Saturday, when Republicans and conservatives gather in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, will they face up to the biggest obstacle preventing them from connecting with voters? Their \”secular problem.\” Lots of ink has been spilled about how Democrats and liberals suffer from a \”religion problem\” — a perceived hostility towards…

  • The Conservatives\’ \”Secular Problem\”

    Today through Saturday, when Republicans and conservatives gather in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, will they face up to the biggest obstacle preventing them from connecting with voters? Their \”secular problem.\” Lots of ink has been spilled about how Democrats and liberals suffer from a \”religion problem\” — a perceived hostility towards…

  • The Power of the Wage Issue

    CQPolitics.com today highlights new research from the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, finding that minimum wage initiatives in five states significantly boosted voter turnout: Voter motivation and reported interest in the election was disproportionately high among Democratic base voters, African-Americans, unmarried voters and women — especially where minimum wage initiatives were in play… …[For example,] Democrats…

  • Minimum Wage Compromise In Sight

    The House Ways & Means Committee yesterday cleared a bill with less than $2 billion in business tax breaks, as part of a plan to resolve differences in the House and Senate minimum wage bills. While I noted earlier that the House is passing the tax bill separately from its wage bill — keeping the…

  • House Inches Toward Senate on Biz Tax Breaks

    Trying to break a House-Senate stalemate over competing minimum wage bills, Rep. Charlie Rangel is planning on moving a bill with $1 billion in business tax breaks, separate from the minimum wage bill, according to CQ Today. That\’s much smaller than the $8.3 billion handout in the Senate minimum wage bill. And, keeping the bills…