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It’s the first time that a state has nullified local minimum wage ordinances that have already taken effect...

Immediately, minimum wages for 29,000 workers in Iowa’s Johnson and Linn counties, who have received raises thanks to higher local minimums enacted in the last two years, will be reduced to the poverty-level federal minimum of $7.25 from $10.10 and $8.25 respectively. The Wapello County minimum wage, now $8.20, will also be cut back to $7.25. Another 36,000 low-wage workers in Polk County, the state’s most populous, will be denied the raises they were scheduled to receive starting April 1, when the local minimum is set to rise from $7.25 to $8.75 per hour. And this week, Lee County became the fifth county in Iowa to approve a higher minimum wage. Its first raise, to $8.20 starting May 1, will be reset to $7.25 as well. All told, more than 85,000 Iowans will be robbed of the raises they were to see over the next two years.

Eighty-four percent of these workers are 20 years of age or older. Nearly 60 percent work full-time. More than half are women. Thirty-one percent are parents. Almost a third are at least 40 years old. And now they face not only low pay, but pay cuts.
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For more on this story of the Trash For Cash the Republican Party can be against their most ardent supporters, hold your nose, and click on the link below...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58dd4b66e4b05eae031e16c6?
 
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Those folks can still get their raises. Companies can pay their employees more than minimum wage anytime they want to.

A government should not be in the practice of telling someone how much they should pay their employees at their own business that they laid out the cash and ingenuity to build.


Would the economy be helped more if a business hires 10 people at $5 or 5 people at $10?
 
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