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They haven't? All I have been hearing for the last 2 years are minimum wage going to 15, and now 18 is the next target.
by rhacker 5y ago
They haven't? All I have been hearing for the last 2 years are minimum wage going to 15, and now 18 is the next target.
- flavius29663 5y agoMinimum wage is de-facto 15, with Amazon offering at least that everywhere. Now we see additional requests for increase. This will never stop. The problem is not with the minimum wage amount, it's with helping people getting off of that, minimum wage should be a temporary stopgap in a person's life. Living on minimum wage sucks hard, no matter the amount. If you increase it, you will only have more people living on minimum wage, struggling to make ends meet. At 7.25, a person doing 20 was fine. Now at 15, a person doing 20 is struggling.
- diob 5y agoThis isn't even true statistically: https://www.statista.com/statistics/238997/minimum-wage-by-us-state/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/238997/minimum-wage-by-u... Minimum wage isn't what is driving inflation. It's insane to me that folks think inflation will happen if we increase wages, when it happens regardless of that. It has more to do with the crazy subsidies / handouts we give to the top 1%.
- diob 5y agoIf you look up the stats (hearing is just anecdotes and alarmist takes by Fox to rile their base), there hasn't been a whole lot of movement. And inflation has been going on a lot longer than the last 2 years, so still it wouldn't be correlated as much as something else pushing it behind the scenes. for ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/238997/minimum-wage-by-us-state/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/238997/minimum-wage-by-u...