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.
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.