Hike in state minimum wage isn't the right total  on April 09,
2013 at 5:18 PM, updated April 09, 2013 at 5:21 PM       Let’s
do some math re: The recent hike in the state minimum wage.    
 The number of Democrats elected to the state Senate: 33.    
 The number of Republicans elected to the state Senate: 30.    
 The number of senators who said they supported raising the
minimum wage right away to $9 an hour: 32. A majority.      The
percentage of New York voters who supported raising the minimum
wage: 80 percent. A majority of whom wanted a raise closer to
$10 than to $9.      Republican voters by 2 to 1 wanted a
minimum wage hike.      Then how did we come up with a minimum
wage hike of only $8 an hour this year? Sen. Jeff Klein and his
Independent Democratic Conference group, including Sen. Diane
Savino of Staten Island: Five Democrats who gave power to the
minority Republicans in order to make “democracy work” better.
  How much money will low-income workers lose by delaying the
minimum wage hike to