Other underlying conditions that predispose people to low back pain include: 1  Inflammatory diseases of the joints such as arthritis, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis as well as spondylitis, an inflammation of the vertebrae, can also cause low back pain.
Texas has the highest number of minimum wage workers in the country. And a recent poll indicated 55 percent of Texas voters support increasing the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Texas voters get what Texas Republican Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz donât: All Texans deserve to make a living wage.On April 30, US Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.Even though a majority of senators support the billâ54 in totalâRepublicans used a procedural move called a filibuster to block the bill from coming up for a vote.n April 30, US Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Even though a majority of senators support the billâ54 in totalâRepublicans used a procedural move called a filibuster to block the bill from coming up for a vote.
Cruz said his father, a Cuban immigrant who didn't speak English, got his first job as a dishwasher, making 50 cents an hour. If President Obama had had his way, the minimum wage would have been raised from 50 cents to $2 and they wouldnât be able to hire my dad,â Cruz said.âIt would have cost him the first job that let him pay his way through college that led him to eventually building a small business.Unemployment among young people will go up if the minimum wage goes up as President Obama says. Unemployment among Hispanics, among African Americans, among those struggling to get their first job to climb the economic ladder, will go up.â.