Today's minimum wage is still $7.25. A third of American workers work for less than $15/hr., and half of those cannot find a place to live. A living wage in most major cities is over $20/hr. This is how America creates, maintains and ignores a permanent underclass. It should be clarion call to a justice, conscience, and a revolution at the ballot box. marianne2024.com

Dec 10, 2023 · 6:22 PM UTC

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It’s a big country, the cost of living is a lot different in various areas within states themselves.
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I’m not sure you understand that minimum wage is for a part time high school student. Livable wage is what you are talking about.
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$15/hr is not enough! It takes $30/hour... Just to be a RENTER! But then rent will rise to keep them out too. So MAGA wants 4% or less unemployment, yet many want at least 4% homelessness, so we can purge 4% from society EVERY YEAR... Until Total US population drops to 100M.
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Financial enslavement is a growth industry
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Strange that convenience store workers are getting twice the minimum in small town america...maybe a free market, capitalist society has taken care of them...name a company paying the minimum wage please.
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$15 an hour wouldn’t support 1 individual in a unheated shack :-(
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Voting against someone who ignores the general welfare? That's all of them. Or U could propose a commodity-based currency, automatic COLAs to match inflation, UBI, massive federal rent-controlled apts, or a new Homestead Act. U could. But,no dialog, no progress.
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To live in most cities on the New Hampshire coast, you need to make between $28-34 per hour just to make rent (utilities/internet included). $20 is a great starting point, but we must go to the table and ask for $38, and work from there. We negotiate knowing we ask for more.
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Raising minimum wages works until you wind up right back where you were except the numbers are bigger.
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…but less than 2% actually earn MW. You are obviously running on a platform of poor data, and campaigning for future inflation which hurts your target voter the most. No thank you. If you ran on a platform of educating our workers to compete globally, I’d hear you out.
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