Delaware legislators on Tuesday introduced a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage from $9.25 to $15 by 2025. Last raised in 2019, Delaware’s minimum wage currently sits $2 above the federal mark. The bill would raise the wage to $10.50 per hour in 2022, followed by $11.75 in 2023, $13.25 in 2024 and $15 in 2025. The measure has support from all 14 Senate Democrats, with 18 of the 26 House Democrats listed as co-sponsors. It needs 11 votes in the Senate and 21 in the House. Gov. John Carney is in favor of it.
- Democrats are trying to bankrupt small businesses. — Steve Hartsock
- Maybe they need the welfare then. I would never think of hiring someone I couldn’t pay a living wage to. — Patricia Marie Diienno
- If every business is forced to pay $15 an hour, then the prices of goods and services will rise to compensate. We’ll be back at square one. — Steve Hartsock
- Funny how In-N-Out Burger and McDonald’s prices are about the same, but I&O workers make about $16 an hour. Don’t talk about price increases when the prices have been increasing without wages increasing, other than the CEO’s wallet. — Craig Walter
- I would think that a business that couldn't afford to pay workers $32 more a day was headed for bankruptcy already. — Tommy Bou
- When gas prices skyrocketed, they increased burgers by a buck because we need to compensate for the increase in logistics cost! However, when prices of gas reduced again, what happened? Prices stayed the same. It’s greed, not just cost. You do see the prices of many products always going up but never on sale. Never fluctuating with real market pricing. It’s this way for rent, too. Tell me how you justify forcing someone to pay $1,200 a month in rent as opposed to an $800 mortgage. — Craig Walter
