• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I do wonder if trying for $15 is just asking too much. Maybe a compromise at $10.62 to restore what it used to be, is all we can hope for at the moment.

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      4 months ago

      The minimum wage was supposed to be the absolute minimum a person could be paid in order to live. It’s not an excuse to pay employees starvation wages. No one, and I mean absolutely no one, can survive being paid $11 an hour in today’s economy (much less the $7.25 it is now). That is why nearly every liberal state has independently moved their minimum to at least $15/hr if not more.