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Minimum wage jobs are for teens or those working their way through school to build work ethic while learning responsibility. Not for grown adults raising a family. If you’re 30+ yrs old complaining about how you can’t support yourself and your family on minimum wage, then you only need to look in the mirror when trying to find someone to blame for your situation.
Almost doubling the minimum wage will only kill jobs. Not create more.
Amen. As a teen, I worked retail for about 6 months, mowed lawns, then telemarketing during college. After graduating, I moved on to adult jobs. Had I not done so, it would be no one's fault but mine.
No they did not. What passed was meaningless. It was opposition to raising the wage to $15 during the pandemic, yes. But Biden's bill does not do that. It raises it only to $9.60 this year and to $15 OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. So the vote was over something that is not even in the bill. Posturing.
adding $5.40 over 5 years , and $7.75 over the present is absurd.
I do think adding 3%/year to the $7.25 for 5 years would be a nice balance.
Amen. As a teen, I worked retail for about 6 months, mowed lawns, then telemarketing during college. After graduating, I moved on to adult jobs. Had I not done so, it would be no one's fault but mine.
Staying at $7.25 since 2009, 12 years now, is also pretty drastic.
It went up $2.10 in the 3 prior years, so it was $5.15 15 years ago. US average wage change is about 2.5% annually, so 15 yrs * 2.5% =37.5%, using law of 72s, compunds to 52%. $2.31 raise or $7.46.
It went up $2.10 in the 3 prior years, so it was $5.15 15 years ago. US average wage change is about 2.5% annually, so 15 yrs * 2.5% =37.5%, using law of 72s, compunds to 52%. $2.87 raise or $8.02.
Which is deceptive, because to say it jumped from $5.15 to $7.25 over three years ignores the fact that it was at $5.15 from 1997 to 2007.
It is reasonable for minimum wage to increase in proportion to inflation, I think we both might be able to agree on that. How to make up for the many years that it does not increase is probably where we will differ considerably.
Which is deceptive, because to say it jumped from $5.15 to $7.25 over three years ignores the fact that it was at $5.15 from 1997 to 2007.
It is reasonable for minimum wage to increase in proportion to inflation, I think we both might be able to agree on that. How to make up for the many years that it does not increase is probably where we will differ considerably.
I'd raise it locally, not nationally, in a nominal manner at this point (single % digit once), and index it to the general BLS regional COL indexes annually after that.
Minimum wage jobs are for teens or those working their way through school to build work ethic while learning responsibility. Not for grown adults raising a family. ..
I'm going to take a guess here that you are well over 50. Am I right? ( I am as well).
What you are saying was true a couple DECADES ago. You're not living in the reality of the work world of today.
I'm going to take a guess here that you are well over 50. Am I right? ( I am as well).
What you are saying was true a couple DECADES ago. You're not living in the reality of the work world of today.
No he is. Nothing changed about the jobs. Prior generations were simply wiser regarding employment versus the millennials of 2021.
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