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228 sats \ 6 replies \ @tomlaies OP 1 Mar \ on: Hardly anyone makes minimum wage anymore charts_and_numbers
Or a more spicy way to word this: The US doesn't have a minimum wage - nobody actually makes only $7.25
Why keep this as a unnecessary talking point to leftists? Just remove the minimum wage completely, it doesn't actually exists in reality anyway.
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58 sats \ 4 replies \ @kr 1 Mar
interesting, i’m actually surprised democrats haven’t taken action to raise the minimum wage recently.
i agree that the number basically does nothing, but it’s a talking point democrats can use to explain how they’re helping low income earners.
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Mar
I think it might be the same reason neither party tries to solve the problems they campaign on: they'd have to find something else to campaign on.
Minimum wage has the added problem of making life worse for the poor on average (it's extremely complicated and we can get into the details if anyone wants to) and most of the Democrat run states already have huge problems with homelessness. Actually raising it significantly would be gas on the fire.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @w3irdrobot 1 Mar freebie
there's a woman in new york, i think, running for senate that is campaigning on fighting for a federal $50/hr minimum wage.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies OP 1 Mar
$1000 per hour and a government mandated Ferrari or you're a bigot ( •̀ - •́ )
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @w3irdrobot 1 Mar
shit. i've been a bigot my whole life and i didn't even know it.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @m00ninite 1 Mar
Most areas set the local minimum wage higher than the federal minimum, and that practice has been accelerating, so of course you'd see less people getting paid the bare minimum
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