If you do not like the min wage in state move
Why the should the federal government be bigger ?
Letting each state/municipality set its own minimum wage would lead to slave labor in the dirty south. If the McDonalds franchise owner in sville Texas is butthurt about a federal minimum wage, he should blame governor Hot Wheels and his state legislature. Their bad faith belief in a free market that drives wage growth is what creates the need for a federal minimum wage.
If you do not like the min wage in state move
Why the should the federal government be bigger ?
letting them set it is one thing... but having a federal standard which ties min wage to some cost of living index (with that index being by municipality) could work.
Sure, but unfortunately when it starts getting complicated like that the GOP finds ways to juke the system. When one political party in a two party country is always acting in bad faith it makes things like what you’re describing impossible to implement.
yeah but hiking the min wages in backwoods rural areas to $15/hr isn't helping
It’s $13.50 an hour now in Washington State, which outside of the greater Seattle MSA is mostly backwoods areas. The McDonalds franchises in those areas aren’t shutting down en masse last I checked.
I think we can all agree there should be a floor, and $7.25 ain't it. Perhaps another way to do it is to allow cost-of-living based exemptions in certain areas.
So I fixed a computer that 3 staple techs could not
Put that on your resume, please
I imagine ducks company just keeps him in some back room. No sane company would allow him to interact with customers
I had this debate on here about a decade ago, that median income does not equal middle class. At the time I posited that middle class started somewhere close to $100k and most Americans were living below middle class and only able to maintain "middle class" lifestyle through debt ac ulation. Libs on here called me an elitist richer
What was wrong with it?
Too much stuff disabled plus it was opening in a dos format
Plus needed windows updates
Computer was 7 months old
I don't disagree with this. But inflation, that liquidates the real value of minimum wage, happens nationwide. That 2% yearly, if you don't update the minimum wage, can build up to a chunk of change.
Exactly. If it were up to Alabama, minimum wage would be $1/hour if you're white, 50c/hour if you're messican and 25c/hour if you're black, and minors over 14 years old can be employed.
"+ If Biden signs the Raise the Wage Act (as he has pledged to do) in early February, the federal minimum wage won’t hit $15 until May 1, 2026."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/roaming-charges-new-days-old-ways/
give it 3 years, not 5, and indexed to inflation and prorated for CoL by region
$23hr is fine in LA rn considering no one is working and everything is closed down due to the China Virus. Lol
Real and nominal value of the federal minimum wage in the United States from 1938 to 2019
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...nimum-wage-us/
Note how in the mid-70s, to end the Golden Age of Labor '45-'75, the VRWC/oligarchy got organized and succeeded in oppressing Labor costs, right through to today.
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Minors over 14 can be employed now. When did that become illegal?
Don't care about minimum wage but whatever it is, I'm sure it won't be enough.
There are some fairly severe restrictions in the number of hours/weeks they can work, especially when school is in session (that goes on until they're 16 y/o). Also, they're only allowed to work in non-agricultural jobs.
Which is the right thing to do.
When the poor stops spending overly-proportionate amounts of their income on luxury brands, specifically in essential items (clothing and tech specifically), will we fully be ready to discuss what a real minimum wage is and what and who it is designed for.
Muricans never stop crying about financial inequality. Muricans never stop spending and giving their monies to the rich. The rich don't get richer by ing magic. The rich get richer because the typical just love having . Undeniable fact.
There's an issue with Murican's addiction to consumerism and we don't want to admit it. It's irrefutable to me and the poorest of the poor in this country still live better than the vast majority of the world.
Want to bridge the wealth gap? Step 1. Stop giving your money to the rich.
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