Chicago politicians want to make our minimum wage 10 dollars an hour!

[darkknightkryta]

HappySqurriel said:

darkknightkryta said:

Is there some kind of government assistance he can get?  At my other job, we were a start up company, my bosses would go to the government and get research grants.  My father's employer, worked out a deal with the government where he'd send employees home ever friday and get them unemployment for one day to save costs.

From my understanding, no ... but I realistically don't know.

In my experience, government funding tends to go to a handful of groups; well funded tech start-ups (I know the provincial government will match venture capital to some start-ups up to $1.5 million), politically motivated pie-in-the-sky schemes (something like "Harvesting unicorn farts as green energy" is far more likely to get government funding that anything that will actually turn a profit), or politically connected medium or large businesses.

My impression mostly comes from experiences in my career ... I've worked for a couple of tech start-ups and government funding was mostly redundant because we needed to be well funded to get it, and I've worked at a medium sized company were "surprisingly" we received a $4 billion contract we weren't qualified for because the CEO was a golfing buddy of the Premier of Alberta and contributed heavily to his re-election campaign.

Gotta love politics, damn Albertan bastards! :P.  Didn't realize we both live in Canada.  It is different from province to province, since for whatever reason job creation isn't a federal problem.