[Vision2020] Just What is it that Attracts Job Hunters to Pullman?

[Tom Hansen]

Just why are people seeking employment in Pullman instead of beautiful
Moscow, you ask?

Perhaps (just maybe), one reason could be (from today's - October 6, 2006 -
Spokesman Review) . . .

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Washington's minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning
Jan. 1. 

The state Department of Labor and Industries recalculates the state's
minimum wage each year. In 1998, Washington voters approved an initiative
that pegged the state's minimum wage to the cost of living. 

Currently, Washington has the highest minimum wage in the nation, at $7.63
an hour. Idaho's minimum wage matches the federal rate, at $5.15 an hour.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Vandalville, Idaho

**********************************************************************

"The minimum wage issue is just another example of those in government,
weilding the power of government, imposing anti-market, anti-business
regulations on our supposedly free market."

- Varnel W. (April 2, 2006) 

**********************************************************************