{"id":687,"date":"2013-09-12T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2014-06-19T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:46:01","slug":"gray-logic-living-wage-bill-job-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"GRAY LOGIC: LIVING-WAGE BILL = JOB-KILLER"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s up to the DC City Council now to see if it can override the mayor’s veto.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Gray vetoes ‘living wage’ bill aimed at Wal-Mart, setting up decisive council vote<\/a>Gray (D) announced his veto in a letter to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson delivered Thursday morning. The bill would require retailers with corporate sales of $1 billion or more and operating District stores of at least 75,000 square feet to pay their employees a “living wage” – no less than $12.50 an hour in combined wages and benefits.<\/p>\n
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It’s up to the DC City Council now to see if it can override the mayor’s veto. Mayor Gray vetoes ‘living wage’ bill aimed at Wal-Mart, setting up decisive council voteGray (D) announced his veto in a letter to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson delivered Thursday morning. The bill would require retailers with corporate sales of … Continue reading GRAY LOGIC: LIVING-WAGE BILL = JOB-KILLER<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}