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Layoffs increased however as a direct result of the increase.
Want to see it happen again in real life? Watch SeaTac Washington. $15.00 an hour? YUP, there are restaurants and other businesses already talking about layoffs.
Minimum wage in 1968 was $1.60, though people working in the farming industry should be making at least $7.70 if we were still going by the same minimum wage laws. So to be on par with 1968, we would still need to be at $10.71 today.
No it wasn't. It was a variable minimum wage depending on where you live and what you do. It was as low as $0.65/hr. The idea that minimum wage was $1.60/hr across the board in 1968 is a flat out lie. Did you look at the link I posted?
Yep, a Fox News story....they speak nothing but the truth.
Did you read the quotes (if you read it at all)? Do you think they made those up?
One of you liberals posted a thread with a link to a Media Matters article yesterday (it was quickly deleted). I wouldn't be complaining about Fox News being used as a source. Opinions from Fox, sure, but not an article with actual quotes.
Did you read the quotes (if you read it at all)? Do you think they made those up?
One of you liberals posted a thread with a link to a Media Matters article yesterday (it was quickly deleted). I wouldn't be complaining about Fox News being used as a source. Opinions from Fox, sure, but not an article with actual quotes.
I wouldn't listen to Media Matters either, that is what happens when you pay attention to hyperpartisan news sources.
No it wasn't. It was a variable minimum wage depending on where you live and what you do. It was as low as $0.65/hr. The idea that minimum wage was $1.60/hr across the board in 1968 is a flat out lie. Did you look at the link I posted?
Something wrong when the news showed the most promising careers for next year and the salaries ranged form 22 to 46 $ and hour as a reference point. All jobs required college degrees which cost anywhere from 20 to 50K a year for 4 years. At the same time an unskilled worker is getting 15$ and hour?????????????
The whole system needs to be examined not just a focus on minimum wage.
15$$ and hour for unskilled work is an outrage but so is 40K for a year of college or for that matter 20K.
From 1961 to 1978 there was a multiple track minimum wage system, which you are ignoring.
Actually I believe there were two tracks - $1.15 and $1.60. State minimum wages were lower, yes, but federal law trumps state law. Some states today have a minimum wage below $7.25 per hour, yet the federal requirement applies in the vast majority of cases.
Minimum wage in 1968 was $1.60, though people working in the farming industry should be making at least $7.70 if we were still going by the same minimum wage laws. So to be on par with 1968, we would still need to be at $10.71 today.
Adults weren't raising families on $1.60/hour though.
You have to look at the complete picture here.
The situation was not the same in 1968.
A HS diploma got you a white collar job.
Mostly kids and housewives worked p/t min wage jobs.
You can't take an item from 1968 and apply it today.
It doesn't work like that.
When I got my first job at McDonald's the only adults were the 2 managers.
Same with the supermarket.
It was all kids after school and weekends and women during the day.
These days you'd be hard pressed to find any KIDS working these jobs.
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