The legal minimum wage here in Rhode Island makes no distinction on the basis of race or ethnic identity . In terms of a LIVING wage a five dollar increase is hardly more pathetic than a one dollar increase. This is the best those " friends of labor " liberal Rhode Island Democrats can do for working class people here of all races, genders , and ethnic groups ?

Not " House slave " but " subservient "( to the Democratic Party establishment) is the correct term for our truly bought and sold Rhode Island politicians .Not just Representative Anastasia Williams.

A long , long way from SOCIALISM is this proposed wretched increase in the Rhode Island minimum wage.

Yes, plutocrat Michael Bloomberg is so much NICER than plutocrat Donald Trump . Presently billionaire Bloomberg is Governor Gina Raimondo's favorite. Yes , indeed the Rhode Island working class , the poor , the elderly , the homeless, VETERANS are blessed with Raimondo's kind , neo-Democrat heart.

For WE THE PEOPLE both parties - Republican and Democrat - stink .