St. Louis leaders agree to raise minimum wage to $11 per hour

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/28/st-louis-leaders-agree-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-11-per-hour/?intcmp=hplnws

Minimum wage workers in St. Louis could soon be joining other workers in cities across the country in getting a raise.

On Friday, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen approved a bill to institute a citywide $11 per hour minimum wage by 2016. Mayor Francis Slay, who supported the bill, signed it an hour after it was approved.

"Dignity is when a family has some money left over to put to the side so that they can grow some equity for a child's future college education, or an emergency medical need," Slay said Friday, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported.

The city now joins several others across U.S. in setting its own wage minimum. The federal rate is $7.25, while Missouri's minimum wage is $7.65.

The vote on the issue met an important deadline after Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed a bill in July that would have blocked cities from raising the minimum wage beyond the state's level. Lawmakers however could override Nixon's veto during a special September session.

I will never understand this. When the minimum wage gets raised so does the price of things.  How they cannot understand this?  People lose jobs and businesses when this happens.  Will the Unions get a exemption from this as they did in L.A?   

[Oceander]

Of course the unions will get a pass on this.