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Friday, March 6, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Bill seeks 90-cent hike in state minimum wage
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Kansas' $1.60 an hour minimum wage is so low that it encourages people to stay on welfare, a Topeka legislator told a House committee yesterday.
"A person on aid to dependent children has more incentive to stay on welfare than to go work at $1.60 an hour." Rep. Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said in promoting his bill House Labor and Industry Committee.
Hensley's bill, which has 28 other Democrats as co-sponsors, would raise the state minimum wage to $2.50 an hour.
Wayne Maichal, executive vice president of the Kansas AFL-CIO, testified in support of the measure. No one spoke in opposition to it.
"We do not oppose an increase in the minimum wage," said Rob Hodgides of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who did not testify.
Hensley said a person receiving aid to dependent children received $4.452 a year, while someone working 40 hours a week at $1.60 an hour makes only $3.328. If the minimum wage were increased to $2.50 an hour, he added, the person working 40 hours a
week would earn $5.200.
"That would at least put that individual above what the ADC recipient is getting." Hensley said. "There is more incentive now just to stay on welfare. As a matter of fact, too, $1.60 an hour is just ridiculous."
The state minimum wage applies to employees of independent and service establishments that are not engaged in interstate commerce or do not reach a federal threshold of wages for sales. Those working for larger, interstate businesses are covered by the federal minimum wage law.
Maichal said, "The state minimum of $1.60 is below the poverty line, and the standard of living has decreased for those people in recent years. This is merely an attempt to raise them up to where they have a little dignity."
Workers covered by the state minimum wage are generally those employed by neighborhood hardware, grocery and liquor stores, service stations, local restaurants and small department stores.
In the case of restaurant workers, the employer can deduct 40 percent of the tips they receive from the $1.60 an hour salary.
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