Kentucky Repugs Vote Down Minimum Wage Hike

That's Ed Whitfield in the First District, Brett Guthrie in the Second, Thomas Massie in the Fourth, Hal Rogers in the Fifth and cAndy Barr in the Sixth.

They want you to get half of the poverty level for doing back-breaking work that none of them could do for five minutes.

Remember in 2014.

From Think Progress:

House Republicans on Friday unanimously voted down a bill that would have raised the minimum wage. Six Democrats joined them in defeating the effort.

The vote came after a surprise move by Democrats, who tacked onto a jobs training program bill an amendment that would have brought the national $7.25 minimum wage to $10.10 by 2015. But Republicans managed to defeat the effort while approving the bill overall.

A few weeks back, House Minority Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) came out in support raising minimum wage, responding President Obama’s State of the Union call for a wage increase. Pelosi’s effort, and the effort proposed Friday, would actually bring the minimum wage up higher than Obama’s suggestion of $9.

If the minimum wage were brought up to $10.10 an hour, it would not be a revolutionary hike; rather, it would be indexed to inflation and consistent with historical borrowing power. Had the minimum wage been indexed to inflation in 1968, it would be $10.40.