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Do you think the minimum wage increase makes a difference?
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Do you think the minimum wage increase makes a difference?
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1,038 Votes

Do you think the minimum wage increase makes a difference?

Yes, anything helps!

6

No, it's not enough.

11

Yes, anything helps!

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Barb Egan
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Barb Egan

People cannot live on what the minimum wage is now. Simple logic!

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Leslie Ann
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Leslie Ann

BUT THE COST OF LIVING NEEDS TO QUIT RISING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BENEFIT THE PEOPLE.

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Sheri Clarke
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Sheri Clarke

Too many people lost their jobs.

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Randy Gillespie
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Randy Gillespie

Thank you Andrea you must feel the same way I do we've on the front lines from the beginning and all we get is abused by all the people that took time off for the pandemic and have free money to step on the back of people to try to help them out nobody cares about the Frontline worker God help Ameri

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Randy Gillespie
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Randy Gillespie

I think the price increase is great for people to get back to work and get off an appointment and living off the government cuz this is not the American way Americans work for a living get off your ass and go back to work

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Andrea Keller
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Andrea Keller

I also think that people who are holding out on unemployment should return to work. Some of us have been working throughout the pandemic without the option of taking government aid or unemployment. it's time to do your fair share and participate in the community you live in

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No, it's not enough.

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Scott Albert
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Scott Albert

This poll is redundant. It is a simple fact(common sense) that an increased minimum wage costs jobs.

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Christena
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Christena

It's not necessary at all. Living costs going down would be a better answer.

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Ed Ludwig
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Ed Ludwig

Minimum wage was never meant to live on.

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tim collins
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tim collins

Like always it just gets passed to the consumer.

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Kristina Biederman
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Kristina Biederman

It's not necessarily only about salary. The cost of living (food, housing, gas, health insurance, etc) have all greatly increased. Paying increased minimum wage results in increased prices for businesses that often cannot afford to pay more.

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Sorina Kawas Mooney
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Sorina Kawas Mooney

Hurts the small business owners. They will just hire fewer people to compensate. Geez, tired of people who have NEVER run a business before making these kinds of decisions.

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k san
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k san

I should be $15!

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Josh Shaffer
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Josh Shaffer

Renting in this town is all ready on the absolutely crazy side. Increasing minimum wage will just makes things worse. its bad enough i get my rent raised every year and well this increase wont cover it at all. The renting prices are out of hand and I feel no matter how much I make it wont matter

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Amanda Wallace
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Amanda Wallace

It doesn't help because it just causes the cost of everything to increase. Therefore, it makes no difference.

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Kimmy Wasatch
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Kimmy Wasatch

It will never be enough, as long as people get "free money" from the state and federal programs, they will not work. Stop the handouts!

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Do you support a record $1.5 trillion budget for the military?

Do you support a record $1.5 trillion budget for the military?

Yes

3

No

2

Yes

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Dave
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Dave

Looks like the ayes have it.

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No

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Oakley Taylor
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Oakley Taylor

We need that money in our own country to help our schools, Medicare and education. Don’t you care about our neighbors and communities?

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Dave
Dave

That money won't help our neighbors and schools when Iranian nukes start hitting our allies and eventually us! That is their goal as they have stated for years!!

Ka San
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Ka San

If it even needs saying, the Military Industrial Complex is the MOST bloated budget of the entire federal budget. If our current "completely-in-over-his-head" Def Sec + idiot prez hadn't started a completely unnecessary war, we would not have depleted stores of weapons and this be on nobody's radar!

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Dave
Dave

Ka San, You sound like a radical liberal. Guess you'd rather have nukes start flying around in the middle east and then closer to home in a couple years.

Do you think sweeps and hostile architecture are effective ways to remove camps?

Do you think sweeps and hostile architecture are effective ways to remove camps?

Yes

1

No

0

Yes

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Kate Coffey
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Kate Coffey

As a tax payer and resident of Deschutes County I am tired of my tax dollars being used to clean up the filth the homeless people leave behind. If this is a deterrent for them living there then we won’t have to clean it up again. Thus saving tax payer dollars and the rocks are a better look.

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No

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