New minimum wage - Worst states nobody moves to

Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland (business friendly areas) are going to make their states even more desirable by holding the line at the $234 weekly paycheck level.

Indiana and Kentucky (kissing cousins) will both be blaming the July inflation reports on today's statewide Minimum Wage increases that push wage earner incomes into the $13,000 per year range.

Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas (oil and gas-rich states) will grudgingly go along and match the federal wages laws of $6.55 per hour going into effect this week.

Montana, Utah and Idaho (keep going West young man) are the bosses' dream states with the bare minimal $28 a week raise as of July 24th -- like all the rest, according to the Labor Law Center.

North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming (nice places to visit, but you know the rest) merely match the latest Federal hourly rate increases - thus staying one day ahead of Washington's wage laws.

By enacting meaningless hourly pay legislation, all 15 of these not-so-desirable states ought to get a new State Motto: "Staying one step ahead of the law"