The best argument for raising the minimum wage to $15 comes from @JoeBiden: No American who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty.

Jan 17, 2021 · 6:01 PM UTC

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There is nothing special about a 40 hour work week. Nobody should live in poverty in the richest country on earth, period.
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15 in nyc and 15 in alabama are very very very different 15s.
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Give the man his credit Marianne!!!this is September 3, 2014 @BernieSanders !
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty. #FightFor15 #RaiseTheWage
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Smart min wage is needed. Businesses with revenue over $1 million should have min wage. Those under no min wage. This creates more owners which overtime will create more equality than a bunch of people earning a "high" min wage.
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Foreign people deserve to work too. If it can't be done here at $15 per hour, people in Mexico should be allowed a chance to do the work.
$15 an hour working full time and missing no days of work is 31.000 a year - the actual income needed to live is 67,000 a year - Joe is pretending to do something amazing while leaving people in poverty businessinsider.com/living-w…
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$15 is poverty wages. Rent food bills....which do you leave out.
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