Sources: Huffingtonpost, NY Times, NY Daily News
As the debate rages on between what should be the right way to approach the issues with minimum wage, the 2013-2014 budget for New York was passed with mixed reactions to the parts relating to minimum wage, Charlene Obernauer of the HuffingtonPost seems to be very critical of the budget and feels as if the measures passed was just a smokescreen that essentially left the most hard working New Yorkers out of any major benefit. The wage will increase annually for the next three years, but will try to leave tipped workers out of an increase as well as give businesses who hire teenagers a tax break. When you look at it back at the national level, arguments remain whether it should be raised at all or in the case of Christina D Romer of the NY Times we should analyze whether we should even have a minimum wage at all, rather than attack one side of the argument she looks at both sides. Yet overall, the fact that the New York proposal included a tax break for those who hire teenagers seems to be the one thing drawing rage and criticism across all spectrums, not only in the huffingtonpost but in the NY Daily News as well. It’ll be important to see how it develops in regards to the national minimum Wage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlene-obernauer/new-york-minimum-wage_b_2924989.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/waging-war-economics-article-1.1303020
