Higher minumum wage won't help renters

[boutons_deux]

I'm all for raising the federal minimum wage but $15 would create ghost towns out of small communities. There has to be consideration for local standards of living.

Federal minimum wage, the basic across the entire nation. Federal minimum + CoL upward adjustment per metro region.

Attacking rural poverty (aka, the location of the Repug base) is a side effect of raising the Federal minimum.

If rurals love Repugs so much, and hate the Feds so much, they should be happy to go along with Repug idea of killing the minimum wage completely, and enjoy the poor asses "right-to-work-for-less" jobs.

btw, there was a report out recently, in UK IIRC, that showed people who grow up in rural areas then move to urban areas retain a lifelong disadvantage in pay. Why would that be true in UK, but not in USA? It's probably true in USA, too.

[DMX7]

I'm all for raising the federal minimum wage but $15 would create ghost towns out of small communities. There has to be consideration for local standards of living.

That's one of the reasons I support Hillary's approach which is the raise the federal minimum wage to $10-12 per hour and encourage certain cities where the cost of living is high to raise it even more on a local level.

[Spurminator]

Attacking rural poverty (aka, the location of the Repug base) is a side effect of raising the Federal minimum.

If rurals love Repugs so much, and hate the Feds so much, they should be happy to go along with Repug idea of killing the minimum wage completely, and enjoy the poor asses "right-to-work-for-less" jobs.

It won't attack rural poverty, it will quicken and solidify it. There's no reason the local grocer in a town of 3,000 people should have to pay his baggers $15K an hour.

[Nbadan]

I'm all for raising the federal minimum wage but $15 would create ghost towns out of small communities. There has to be consideration for local standards of living.

Have you been to most small towns recently.....NAFTA and other bad trade deals already 'made those ghost towns'

[Nbadan]

That's one of the reasons I support Hillary's approach which is the raise the federal minimum wage to $10-12 per hour and encourage certain cities where the cost of living is high to raise it even more on a local level.

I think that natural demand and supply is almost at $10 an hour already....what a $10-12 law would do is force retailers like Walmart and Target to pay their employees a little bit better...passing those costs on to consumers of course...

[Nbadan]

But wages are local, $12 an hour will go a lot further in some parts of the country than others..

[Spurminator]

Have you been to most small towns recently.....NAFTA and other bad trade deals already 'made those ghost towns'

Plenty have survived and I see no urgent need to kill the rest of them off.

[TeyshaBlue]

I grew up in a small town. Its doing fine.

[TeyshaBlue]

The recent surge to $50/bbl is certainly a boon.

[ducks]

Min wage is for 15-20 year old to learn to work and responsibility
Not pay house bills and raise s family
Do not get people pregnant If u make min wage

[Wild Cobra]

Breeders don't care. They are irresponsible to have a babies. Then they expect more of my tax dollar for their irresponsibilitty.

I'm sick of these pathetic individuals.