minimum wage
A Twitter campaign to bid Cuomo up on the minimum wage
If the governor was on Twitter earlier today, he might have seen a flurry of messages urging him to raise the state's minimum wage to $9 an hour and index it to the rate of inflation. More
Outflanking de Blasio (and Cuomo and Obama), John Liu calls for an $11.50 minimum wage
Last night at a mayoral forum about poverty, comptroller John Liu said the city's minimum wage should be $11.50 an hour. More
Gillibrand makes the women's case for minimum wage
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand emailed supporters this morning to make the case for why a $9 minimum wage would be particularly helpful to working women.
"We all know this increase is long overdue," Gillibrand wrote. "But here’s something you may not know: an incredibly disproportionate number – 64% of minimum wage earners – are women." More
'I am their instrumentality': Cuomo on making Skelos cooperate, in some form
Governor Andrew Cuomo would like to emphasize that his support for a majority-Republican coalition in the State Senate is conditional. More
Cuomo decries the 'extreme' conservatism of the state G.O.P. and its echo in the 'Post'
This morning Governor Andrew Cuomo said that the Republican-led Senate, in opposing marijuana decriminalization, was responding to the "extreme" conservative wing of the state's Republican party, whose views he sometimes sees articulated in the New York Post. More
(2)'More murders, higher crime? Is that what the Times wants?'
Following a New York Times editorial recommending the city adopt Philadelphia-style stop-and-frisk reform, Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning wondered, "More murders, higher crime? Is that what the Times wants?" More
Bloomberg stands by support for a minimum-wage hike, but not necessarily Silver's
This morning, at a press conference in the basement of a Greek Orthodox church in Queens, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed his “conceptual” support for raising the state’s minimum wage, without committing to back Speaker Sheldon Silver’s concrete minimum-wage proposal, which was revealed today. More
Bloomberg endorses a hike of the state minimum wage, giving him (and Quinn) room on the living wage
Mayor Michael Bloomberg may be fervently opposed to the “living wage” bill now being considered by the City Council, but during his second-to-last State of the City address, delivered Thursday afternoon, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that “the genius of the free market is not always perfect.” Then he endorsed a living wage bill of another sort. More
