Then the minimum wage needs to stop being an arbitrary number every couple of decades.
It needs to be a calculation, but the rich will never allow that.
It needs to be a formula that automatically adjust every year. It should be based on the cost of living for an area to provide a minimum living.
Having a national wage is stupid since cost of living is so varied across the country.
We should also rename it to living wage or something else to draw attention to its intent.
People claim it was never meant to provide a living. I say BS as In the 70’s my dad made a little over minimum wage and we had two cars, a house, my mom didn’t work and two kids. Financially it was tight but that was all on a job paying slightly above minimum wage.
You mean like how USA political campaign donation limits are done ?
They are updated every election and related to the cost of living unlike the minimum wage.
which combined with a low minimum wage means that only rich people can afford to pay off politicians for favors.
I’d rather see a formula. Something like average cost of groceries+average apartment,etc.
If you can’t afford to have a basic car, basic food and a basic place to live then it’s really not a living wage.
You can allow for a regional minimum wage, but dont open hand from the national minimum wage because states will compete to the bottom. Dont let them have that power.
That’s why I said a formula. That requires each region to have a wage that people can live on.
Otherwise you end with something stupid like 15 an hour which isn’t livable in California and it’s a solid living in Mississippi.
The wages need to reflect the cost of living in the area to be useful. A formula allow it to be adjusted easily every year.
Even at the time seven something was a lot of money but now days it’s a joke. Housing; food have all went up.
I called a couple week ago to check what my old apartment rents for now. In 2001 it was 750 a month which was expensive. Now it’s close to 2k
Random sidenote: I want fines to also be a calculation.
Especially when a parking fine is $62 and the cost for a parking lot spot is $25.
After a while, fines look like a convenience fee.
If it’s a fine from the state it should be scaled based on you’re income or wealth. If Jeff Bezos gets a parking ticket it should sting him as much as it stings someone making the minimum wage. Meaning the ticket should probably be in the millions.
As long as terms like fair wage are used it’ll be the same. It needs better branding.
This is the case in France. Minimum wage is automatically adjusted to inflation every year.
Yeah… increasing the minimum wage with productivity is not how capitalism works.
Just a bunch of dragons sitting on hoards of treasure.
We need some adventurers to slay the dragons and redistribute their I’ll gotten gains.
Yes, but capitalism leads to creativity and innovation. Just think of all the ways they’ve managed to avoid increasing minimum wage and convince minimum wage workers that they aren’t worth any more.
Solution: be less productive.
OK, done, now how do I afford to eat though?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Yet there’s another revealing figure that underscores how the minimum wage — created by Congress after the Great Depression as a way to ensure that Americans were fairly paid for their labor — has failed to keep up with the times.
“That may sound pretty crazy, but that’s roughly what the minimum wage would be today if it had kept pace with productivity growth since its value peaked in 1968,” wrote Dean Baker, senior economist at the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, in a recent blog post.
Inequality also widened during the pandemic, with the wealth of the richest Americans surging as stocks soared, while those at the bottom were more likely to get laid off than white-collar workers and also more likely to work in jobs where they faced a great chance of catching COVID-19.
For one, more than tripling the federal baseline wage would result in a host of undesirable economic effects, from a spike in unemployment (as employers would need to cut jobs in order to pay the workers they could afford to keep on) to higher inflation.
Although businesses and institutions like schools must reopen — and stay open — for the labor market to continue healing from the impact of COVID-19, the Delta variant’s rapid spread argues in favor of shutting down to safeguard public health.
“The fact that we saw some wage increases at the bottom and the middle in recent months is a positive sign for workers, but it doesn’t represent a long-run shift in the power balance in the workplace.”
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Sorry, dems been too focused on getting more military officers
Republicans are blocking military officers for the same reason they blocked supreme court nominations, they’re gambling on their guy winning in 2024 so they can pack the leadership ranks and hold power without winning an election.
Dems can work on more than one thing, but these two are both critical.
The executive branch already has the authority to make all the vacancies it wants
True. As long as it doesn’t violate any employment law…or administrative law…or relevant contracts…or any other relevant area of law…and you don’t mind weeks of headlines “PRESIDENT FIRES MILITARY, PUTS COUNTRY AT RISK”…
Two separate issues. They can do more than one thing at a time, I know that seems weird
I guess theyre just intentionally not fighting for minimum wage increase then.
