Proposed raise in Nebraska's minimum wage fails to advance

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joe Duggan

LINCOLN — State lawmakers who oppose raising Nebraska's minimum wage dispensed with debate Monday night, choosing to let their red lights do the talking.

A bill that proposed raising the state's minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour fell five votes short of the 25 needed to advance to the second round.

Sen. Jeremy Nordquist of Omaha, who made the bill his priority, said lawmakers could have helped Nebraska's working poor move off some of the public assistance programs that are so divisive in the Legislature.

“We're going to pay for challenges of low-income families one way or another, and tonight we decided not to make businesses pay a share of that cost,” he said.

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[newfie11]

1. Why am I not surprised!

[olddad56]

2. Got to keep the poor people hungry, it is the new american way.

[atreides1]

3. Yep

Yet at the same time these idiot politicians continue to allow those soon to be disgruntled poor people access to guns...there will come a time when someone will finally snap and start using those politicians as targets....

[geretogo]

4. A raise in pay for the people may cause them to vote democratic . The Right can't have that .