Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have been insisting that $1,000 bonuses to workers are chump change, an degrading insult that should make the workers seethe with rage. I have a feeling that's not what most of them were doing as they strolled into the bank to cash or deposit those unexpected checks. But if Chuck and Nancy don't like $1,000 bonuses, maybe they'd feel better about rising wages at small businesses.
Because according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, we're going to get more of that this year than we've seen in the past 28 years: