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 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.
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