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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Raising minimum wage wouldn’t help anyone find housing, it would more likely make affordability worse
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We just need to make federal minimum wage $20/hr, tie it to CPI, have it adjusted on January 1st every year, then never talk about this again. Seems like such an easy fix… + cap salaries at a certain multiple above their lowest paid workers to keep it from being inflationary
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You are trapped in the scarcity mindset
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Rebuild and restore unions! It's the only way.
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UBI. Let workers drive working conditions. UAW and nurses are able to (almost) effectively strike because as individuals they have power. A UBI resets that balance for more workers. You pay for it through military cuts and streamlining certain social welfare programs.
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Yeah, but the corporations love it.
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We don’t need to Federally mandate wage increases. What we need is to empower workers to negotiate their pay through collective bargaining. Norway does this with union-negotiated wages set by industry. It’s very effective.
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If the government hadn't destroyed the economy it'd be pretty good. How the fuck is more government better?
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No shot _you_ would be able to do anything about this.
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