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Sec. 3
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Dear Fellow New Yorker,
While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it used to guarantee opportunity.
Not anymore.
Today, too many Americans don’t believe their children will have a better life than their own. The ideal of mobility has been replaced by the reality of stagnation. Some argue that we can close the income gap by pulling down the top. I believe we should do it by lifting up the bottom. We can begin by raising labor standards, starting with the minimum wage.
Nowhere is the income gap more extreme and obnoxious than in the fast-food industry. Yesterday I published an op-ed in The New York Times announcing my intention to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers.
You might ask, why start with this industry? Fast-food C.E.O.s are among the highest-paid corporate executives. The average fast-food C.E.O. made $23.8 million in 2013. Meanwhile, entry-level food-service workers in New York State earn, on average, $16,920 per year, which at a 40-hour week amounts to $8.50 an hour. Adjusting for inflation, average C.E.O. pay has quadrupled since 2000, while workers' wages have risen by just 0.3%.
More than 600 economists, including seven Nobel Prize laureates, have affirmed the growing consensus that raising wages for the lowest-paid workers doesn’t hurt the economy. In fact, by increasing consumer spending and creating jobs, it helps the economy. Studies have shown that every dollar increase for a minimum-wage worker results in $2,800 in new consumer spending by household, and of the 13 states that have increased the minimum wage since 2014, including New York, all but one experienced employment growth.
On Thursday, I am directing Acting State Labor Commissioner Mario J. Musolino to impanel such a wage board, to examine the minimum wage in the fast-food industry. The board will return in about three months with its recommendations, which do not require legislative approval.
This is the next phase of our Fight for Fair Pay campaign. This is the right thing to do, the smart thing to do, and I hope you’ll join me.
In solidarity,
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
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