Report from our correspondent (AP), New Jersey, New Jersey state senate Thursday through a bill, raise the minimum wage, march, and then it will automatically adjust, every year increase or decrease connected to the consumer price index.
The party's line vote 23-16 signal back to politics, as usual, for the state senate after a month Superstorm sandy and established a dominant democratic senator and governor Chris Christie (Chris Christie), is expected to veto the bill republican legislative confrontation between.
On March 1,, the bill will raise the minimum wage from $1.25 an hour to $8.50.
Expected a ticket veto, the senate also took the first step to this problem on Thursday to referendum bill to amend the constitution.
In Thursday's two hours of debate in the senate, in experienced sandy's state, which changed so much, is always present another wrinkles debate in the very great degree is a moral and philosophical fight. It is still on Thursday in the senate, republicans say minimum wage standard improve will hurt enterprise and forced layoffs, and Democrats argue that this is wrong, XinZhou pay so little place, it is expensive life.
Republican senator Jenny baker, and R - red bank said, her support to raise the minimum wage, but the storm made a wrong time to do. She told the little shore of business owners "still cleaning the glass", and want to know, if their enterprise can survive the winter. "Hurricane destroyed thousands of our legislative first reaction is a lend a helping hand, but greater burden," she said.
The Democrats believe that a rise in the minimum wage standard is the necessary help the person with inferior income - this is even higher amount is not enough to support a family.
"You live in the $8.50 an hour?" Senator Richard KouDi, D - Ross orchid asked. "These people's congress part is not good, how do you feed your family, how would you education them?"
Senator Jim HuiLun, D - Atlantic city, he said, in the enterprise owners through the lens damage sandy was a mistake.
"Let us not to draw a line, the enterprise owners and owners say they will gain profit, but the people who need them the most, the most poor in our country, the lowest" migrant job-hunting boy ", do not know this, "he said.
Haven't solve the problem. Christie also has not publicly said he will veto the bill, but the President of the senate Stephen Sweeney, d. western Deptford said, Christie's privately told him, and he will be the knicks in the automatic increase.
The former governor desk desk, it will come to the meeting on Monday. The points into the court may raise minimum wage standard, but need to adjust date, from July 1 to March 1 vote.
Congress are expected to propose to revise the state constitution, it may be in the November 2013 votes.
To enforce the public vote, both Chambers of congress passed a resolution in the continuous two years - or through a three 5 of the members, their room. After a kind of choice is not possible. The senate vote resolution for 23-16.




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