Siena Poll: Majority of New Yorkers support $15 minimum wage proposal

The Siena College poll said that 59 percent of registered voters who were surveyed favored raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour while 38 percent opposed.

“There is strong overall support from voters for the governor’s proposal to increase the minimum wage to $15, however, there are wide partisan and geographic differences”, Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said in a statement. The wage is now $8.75 and is set to rise to $9 at year’s end.

New York in the midst of a multi-year initiative to invest $900 million into improving the nation’s oldest state park system, which includes 180 parks and 35 historic sites.

“Minimum wage only affects a very small, certain type of employee, but there will always be winners and losers”, he added.

UNTIL HIS $15 an hour announcement, Cuomo was in political trouble because liberals in the state Democratic Party were finally getting fed up with him.

Members of 32BJ SEIU at Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s minimum wage rally this month. State education officials have said they are considering renaming Common Core something else, and the education commissioner, as well as Cuomo, are reviewing the standards to try to fix them. Astorino said if the state had a better business climate, there would be more high-paying jobs and no one would have to argue about raising the minimum wage.

The other noteworthy favorable-unfavorable numbers are those of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, both of whom ascended to power in the last legislative session. “It’s simple math. The minimum wage does not work”.

Andrew Cuomo has had a sudden revelation-with Vice President Joe Biden by his side, he told a press conference that he now actually supports a $15 an hour minimum wage. Writing in the Metropolitan Council on Housing’s Tenant/Inquilino, he stated: “It is not a secret that Cuomo prefers a Republican-controlled Senate, although he won’t admit it, and virtually no other politician will say so in public”. In doing so, New York state will have the highest minimum wage in the country, according to the release.

In addition to targeting fast-food restaurants, Cuomo is working toward an “all-industry minimum wage increase”, according to the release. That might take awhile, but we can start right now.