Minimum Wage

It's not much, that's for sure.

Should the practice of tipping end around the United States, or should it continue. This is a question that has come up after a server was fired for her 2200 dollar tip.

Friday on KFYO Mornings with Dave King and Matt Martin, Congressman Jodey Arrington joined Dave and Matt to talk about the state of America under President Joe Biden, Biden's policies, violence and riots, the Paris Climate Agreement, increasing the minimum wage, investigations, and more...

President Joe Biden wants to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour. Biden is attempting to get the measure passed as part of a broader stimulus package that could be voted on by the House soon. While some workers would see an increase in their take home pay, it would also cost millions of jobs according to the Congressional Budget Office...

"We have more jobs than we have people to fill them because of free market policies, where we put more freedom in the marketplace, less government tax, less government regulation, and now wages are growing faster than they have in over a decade and the fastest growth and the biggest gains are on the lower end of the income spectrum. So workers are benefiting from the tax cuts and deregulation, and all that more mandates and government interventions are going to do is increase unemployment," Arrington said.

When you fight for $15, the cost of everything tends to increase.

Due to increasing minimum wages across the U.S. one chain is eliminating busboys.

The $15 an hour minimum wage idea is a bad idea. The Chad Hasty Show airs 8:30-11am on 790AM KFYO.

Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour will be a disaster in California. The Chad Hasty Show airs 8:30-11am on 790AM KFYO.

Dr. Benjamin Powell of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University talked with Chad about the upcoming presentation entitled, “The Kids Are Not All Right” at the Institute by Dr. Scott Beaulier from Troy University. The program deals with how government contributes to skyrocketing youth unemployment and the increasing difficulty young people face in finding employment.