I'm sure it makes their hearts just glow at the prospect of doing this measure. It may even eek them an extra percentage point or two come election time... for the effort at least. That's politics.

But economics is a whole other ballgame.

When EVERY job earns a living wage... that will be something to crow about. But if they (we?) start down that path then we need to also get back to one wage earner being enough to actually support a family as the par model.

Gee... having that other parent present and available... well, that might actually fix all sorts of other social ills at the same time.

This is about the dumbest idea for the city of Baltimore...I cannot wait for the additional panhandlers when this causes unemployment to increase. Please keep electing these mental giants to run the city into the ground...

If the Council wants people to earn a "livable wage" they should stop raising property taxes like they have been. Only then will landlords stop continually having to raise rents to play catch up.
Economics do not exist in a bubble. The real problem is that the council's goal is not to improve the lives of city residents, it is to play lip service to potential voters in order to stay employed and stay in power. Remember this when you go to the voting booth.

I think someone slept through Economics 101. What a yahoo. And this guy has voting authority on the City finances. Yeh, that makes sense. Will someone explain to Mr. Young that pricing the cost of labor above it's economic value is exactly why there are not enough jobs in Baltimore as it is. Duh.

actually it makes perfect sense.....more equality for workers...not more profit for giants like wal mart, who keep raking in the profits but won't even pay their employees the amount of money to consume the goods and services they produce....that's economics 101......this is exactly a bill we need to pass, a bill that addresses the economic inequality in this country....workers do just as much as managers, owners etc if not more, i'm not against the owners etc making a little more like in japan..an owner makes about 15 percent more than an employee....in america its more like 1000 percent and even higher

Well, Mr Snyder, obviously the basics of Economics also are a mystery to you as well.

Of course without voters who don't understand basic economics the idiots on the City Council wouldn't be able to keep their job. This is obviously why they are so much in favor of continued monopoly control of the public schools in Baltimore.

If I were you I would ask for a refund from whatever left leaning high school or college you got the above concepts from.

There is a reason Lenin referred to the followers of socialism as "useful idiots".