Part of a plan to increase the state’s minimum standard rate of pay to $15 per hour by 2025, today Delaware’s rate will rise from $9.25 to $10.50 per hour. The increase will continue with a hike to $11.75 in 2023, followed by $13.25 in 2024 before finishing at $15 in 2025. The move to improve Delaware’s minimum wage began in July when Gov. John Carney signed Senate Bill 15 in to law.
- Imagine posting an angry emoji over people who are not making a living wage getting a raise. — Frank Williamson
- Imagine not understanding economics at all and pushing for employment-harming wage floors. — Robert Paul
- Employment harming? Ok, tell that to the cities and states that have already done it. Keep fighting for the wealthy though, I'm sure they do a lot for you. — Frank Williamson
- A minimum wage job is meant as a stepping stone, not a career. If you want to make money that is a living wage, then work a job that deserves it. — Mike Szczuka
- You only think it's a "stepping stone" and shouldn't live off it be because that's what they've convinced you it should be, but that was never its intent. Which would you prefer, your taxes go toward supplementing their income with welfare? Or the rich guy they work for actually paying a decent wage? Here's a quote from the man who started the minimum wage in the first place. “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt — Frank Williamson
- It doesn't matter wages go up. so do prices of rent and food. It's a no-win. — Ryan Starr
- With education and vocational skills, one’s income can go up. — Howard Gaines III
- That's why joining a union is good; get a raise every year. — Jim Savage
