Minimum Wage: 7 Funny Tweets About Illinois' Minimum Wage

Fast-food worker protests in Chicago have put the city at the forefront of a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage. While efforts to raise Chicago's minimum wage to $15 per hour did not come to fruition, Chicago did increase the minimum wage to $10 per hour with scheduled raises set to take place until 2019 adding up to $13 per hour.

Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has talked about raising Illinois' minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 per hour in $.25 annual increments, which was met with little enthusiasm.

Here is what is being said about Illinois' minimum wage on Twitter:

the failure of minimum wage fast food workers to grasp academic gender politics is why i'm writing in Emmanuel-Rauner for 2016,

— Quantian (@quantian1) January 3, 2016

Urgent: Do You Think the Minimum Wage Should Be Raised?

@heatherdhansen I didn't make $15 at my chicago brokerage firm internship... $10 is plenty for minimum wage.

— Lydia Bilyeu (@lydiabilyeu) October 14, 2015

@solemnoathbeer Work a job that pays near minimum wage in a high rent city like Chicago? Gee, I can’t imagine why no one wants that.

— Jim Doolittle (@AgronomyJim) August 5, 2015

#Hillary2016 organizers in Chicago have NO answer for woman who observes raising minimum wage kills small businesses. "Check the website."

— Eric Owens (@ericowensdc) August 1, 2015

VOTE NOW: Is Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner Doing a Good Job?

The only way to balance the budget in Illinois is for all to go to minimum wage they can't do the job at the pay they are getting now

— Vivian Ingraham (@ingraham_vivian) July 1, 2015

In ChiTown, those $12 Big Macs taste sooo much better!: Chicago's incremental minimum wage increase takes effect http://t.co/RY3SGIrtY9

— Jim Bixby (@jrbixby) July 1, 2015

Rauner just said he’d raise the minimum wage to $10/hr…over the NEXT SEVEN YEARS. He paused for applause, got only murmerings

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 4, 2015

Vote Now: How Do You Feel About the Minimum Wage?

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