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@9GKC2NX 3yrs3Y
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Minimum wage needs to be enough that someone working 40 hours a week at that wage can afford housing, transportation, food and health care without needing government assistance. Wages lower than that threshold essentially promote government subsidization of employers
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@9GKCTJQ3yrs3Y
Minimum wage needs to be abolished because it forces small businesses to comply, and since smaller businesses cant keep up with it, it makes them go out of business while big business can grow and become monopolies.
@9WR32F82yrs2Y
California did it, rising from §10 / h to §15 / h.
In the first year, minimum wage increased by §1 / h for big business, and the following year §1 / h for small businesses, on the idea that people going to work at large businesses have lunch, get dry cleaning, etc, at small ones, which is how they'd be able to afford it in the second year.
@9GC2374 3yrs3Y
people cant live off of minimum wadge, the price of food alone is outrageous, the housing market, HUD doesn't even give people the amount of money to find a house that is halfway decent or has working anything. how are we supposed to live on a dollar a day when some of us need more food because of a medical condition. most people cant even get AN APPLE with one dollar because apples are like five friggen dollars. why are we made to live like this, but others get to live lavish lives where they get anything and everything they want?
@9GC53TF3yrs3Y
I agree with this comment, taxes and inflation have been on the rise without, any raise in pay to accommodate or make living manageable.
A higher minimum wage could stimulate economic growth. When people have more disposable income, they're likely to spend more, and this increased demand can ignite business growth and potentially lead to job creation. Moreover, adequate compensation can improve workers' morale and productivity, which can benefit businesses in the long run.
@9GC57BJ3yrs3Y
They should increase it or how else would they pay for rent, bills, taxes, food supplies, and needs? And if they have kids, how would they feed them or pay any of those with one dollar?!
@FearlessCoatiRepublican3yrs3Y
Consider the potential inflationary effects of increasing the federal minimum wage. For example, businesses might have to raise prices to compensate for higher labor costs, making everyday goods and services more expensive for everyone, including those on minimum wage. In fact, a Congressional Budget Office report estimated that a $15 minimum wage could result in 1.3 million lost jobs. Instead, how about we explore alternative solutions like expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to help low-income families without the risk of job loss?
Then just raise the minimum wage to one million dollars an hour and all our problems would be solved, by that line of reasoning. Except that, and any increase in the minimum wage, would make everything astronomically worse. Businesses would be forced to raise their prices even higher, lay off hundreds of thousands or millions even of workers, and cut corners in all possible areas
@9S8MS8CRepublican2yrs2Y
The minimum wage is not meant to be for living off of; it’s for teenagers to get a sense of what working is like. If your job isn’t paying enough, go find another one—there are billions of jobs available. If you raise the minimum wage now, companies will just raise the prices of their products, which will make it even harder for poor people to afford things. It just ends up screwing over poor people and smaller businesses. Smaller businesses will not have enough money, and it does nothing but harm everyone. So, no, it shouldn’t be raised.
@BBQVYJM 4mos4MO
The LEGAL minimum wage is $7.25. There is no argument for that, it is simply unlivable. Americans are working 2+ jobs and are still just barely scraping by even with a spouse also contributing. Even just 10-20 years ago this was not the case. The rich grow richer and the divide gets larger and larger. Bottom line the minimum wage MUST be raised or prices MUST come down.
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@BBR48VQ4mos4MO
I absolutely agree with this. As the younger generation enter the world it's becoming more and more realized that the average person has no way of living in this world. The price of everything is too high, college makes it difficult to secure a good job and the old dream of working your way up at a job is dead and has been for years due to the oldguard staying for so long. Action needs to be made before the country falls into another economic disaster.
@6W8D38YConstitution 4mos4MO
Minimum wage jobs are for entry level, young, and new-to-the-workforce people. If you raise the minimum wage, in addition to hiking prices everywhere (employers will have to raise the prices of goods and services to afford their inflated emplyee costs thus leading to inflation for consumers), you will also be removing opportunities for young workers who are just learning work ethic and basic skills.
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@9GBZCXB 3yrs3Y
Its logical to raise minimum wage right along with the cost of living. How can you live off a low minimum wage if your cost of living is two times more than what you make.
@9S8MS8CRepublican 2yrs2Y
The minimum wage is not meant to be for living off of; it’s for teenagers to get a sense of what working is like. If your job isn’t paying enough, go find another one—there are billions of jobs available. If you raise the minimum wage now, companies will just raise the prices of their products, which will make it even harder for poor people to afford things. It just ends up screwing over poor people and smaller businesses. Smaller businesses will not have enough money, and it does nothing but harm everyone. So, no, it shouldn’t be raised.
@B7BG3YD 9mos9MO
As infltion happens it becomes harder and harder to afford things and lots of people don't make enough from just 1 job to afford rent and most people now days will have to wait until they are old before they could ever own a home off of todays minimum wage.
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@BDGTRXY 1mo1MO
Affordable living is a human right and it is the government’s job to ensure the welfare of the American people, including raising the minimum wage to a livable cost.
@9GKZF7B 3yrs3Y
i think it should go up cause people can work 10 hours a day for 5-6 days a week and and barely be making it by
@9GL35N6Peace and Freedom 3yrs3Y
Yes! Minimum wage should definitely be increased! This person has a really good point and they're right. The economy today is crazy expensive. Many people are living paycheck to paycheck, or others have many jobs at once barely making it. It doesn't make sense how jobs pay very little when the economy is not very affordable.
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@B9VRM6Q 5mos5MO
Raising minimum wage puts more money in workers pockets, lifts hundreds of thousands out of poverty and helps rely less on government aid.
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@B9R22J5Women’s Equality 5mos5MO
Basic necessities include: housing, transportation, food, insurances is extremely costly and just alone with the way insurance rates are today, $7.25 ph as minimum wage just isn't enough to cover these needed items above. One would have to work 60 plus hours to maybe barely make it. Maybe more if it's a family being supported.
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@B8Q7ZMT 7mos7MO
Think about it like this if lets say you and your mom are living right on the poverty line and you are a minor raising minimum wage will help add to the house hold median income and raise your qaulity of life.
@B8QGL5X7mos7MO
Yes, many people live in the lower classes and in poverty due to money raising its value, and jobs requiring more and more experience and training. Jobs also sometimes discriminate against others if they are poorer than others. There are a lot of factors that go into minimum wage that point to the need to raise it.
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@B8TZP9B 6mos6MO
77.4% of employees feel that they have been taken advantage of in their workplace.
Gas prices have increased 36%-40% since 2020, with food prices increasing at 5.8% by 2023 and slowed increase at 2.3% in 2024
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@9GJF3HZ 3yrs3Y
Increased reason to work, which will lower the unemployment rates and generate more money for the economy.
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@BCQBG9GIndependent 1mo1MO
The state/federal minimum wage is independent to the Cost of Living and Inflation. Keeping it stagnant forces many people to rely on government assistance which puts the burden of Cost of Living on the tax payer instead of the employer. Unrelated, but I also believe that top earner's pay in companies need to be capped at x% of lowest earners pay to incentivize companies growing together instead of golden parachutes for executives. Also I believe that Shareholder Dividends should be restructured so that more profits are reinvested in the companies and employees. Stocks should just be considered like trading cards not revenue generating investments. Companies should be incentivized to become more valuable, not to suck all the value out of the company and given to executives and shareholders.
@B9ZTWKM 4mos4MO
Minimum wages are way lower then livable wages. Minimum wages should be half of a livable wage, so that its still possible to make a living with 2 jobs at most.
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@B9ZYTWY4mos4MO
The minimum wage should not be the minimum wage of survival, it should be the minimum wage for life. Technically, you can survive off of $7.25/hr, but you can't live off of that. Depriving people of basic human joys such as hobbies is not the goal. The goal is not to work 80 hours a week to feed your family, and if companies keep raising prices, then the wage needs to follow
@B6MP6C910mos10MO
No businesses that I even know of have a wage of $7.25/hr, and if someone works a job like that, there should be plenty of other job options available that have a higher wage. This law is just put in place to make sure that businesses aren't going too crazy with how they pay their employees, but there are also state laws put in place on top of this in probably every state to set a better minimum wage. So there is nothing to worry about! Also, if the minimum wage keeps going up, that makes prices even higher, until everything is unaffordable. We definitely don't want that.
@B6MSC37Libertarian 10mos10MO
The price of living a minimal life in America is currently much too high for many people, and raising the minimum wage would be a step in the right direction for letting the people live in America.
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@9FBRQZZ3yrs3Y
Yes the federal minim wage should increase due to all the other little outcomes that come from the ordinary people who be working minimum wage pay cheeks due to just one work position you dont get enough money to survive as an adult due to everything you have to pay everywhere nowadays that people have to work 2-3 more jobs. All that hard work and time you waste for the money that gonna go back right to the bills we owe. People sacrifice a lot for it since its the easiest to get a job and make some money but not to survive a good life to work 1 minimum wage paying job. So them increasing the… Read more
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@9G8NR2L 3yrs3Y
The cost of living is different in every state. The federal government should not be able to place a one size fits all wage on each person. There has to be room for adaptations.
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@9F9L7CPIndependent3yrs3Y
A lot of minimum wage jobs such as waiters, cashiers and baggers at stores work long hours to practically get robbed by the government letting these stores pay them such a small wage. It’s a form of modern day slavery that these people get paid barely enough money to even pay rent especially with housing prices being ridiculously high and continue to increase.
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@B6NGSHB 10mos10MO
A 10% increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 1.5% reduction in poverty rates, based on a synthesis of 12 studies by economist Arindrajit Dube. This effect is comparable to those of disability insurance and unemployment benefits
-RSF Journal
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Some broader estimates suggest that a 10% increase in minimum wage could reduce non-elderly poverty by 5%
-Wikipedia
, while other studies estimate a 2.4% drop in poverty from such an increase
-The Washington Post
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour could lift 7.6 million people out of poverty; Hispanic workers and low-income families benefit most
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that a similar raise could lift 900,000 people out of poverty
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@9FP45QY3yrs3Y
Our society and country would collapse instantaneously with lack of empathy. We should support any hardworking person who spends 40hrs a week at work with proper pay. Base pay should be enough for one person to have an apartment to themselves and buy enough food for themselves. No hardworking individual should starve or struggle with paying for a home. Our country survives off the hard work of all individuals. Without them many businesses wouldn’t be who they are today.
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Studies have shown that raising the minimum wage can reduce income inequality and lift workers out of poverty. It can also stimulate consumer spending, leading to economic growth. Additionally, research suggests that a higher minimum wage can improve worker productivity and reduce turnover, benefiting both employees and businesses.
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@9F9PB9MRepublican3yrs3Y
people work 40 hours a week just to get less than 500 dollars on their pay check and then they have to pay bills and when they are done with bills they only have less than 50 dollars for themselves
@9FGZNJW3yrs3Y
Then work more than 40 hours: work a part-time job, find a way to earn passive income, if you feel you are being under-paid then apply for a job or position with better pay or ask for a raise. No one is going to just give things to you. This isn't a charity. Just about everyone has worked a minimum wage job at some point in their life, those of us who got sick of it used it as a stepping stone (which it should be viewed as) and those who were complacent decided to stick around, not developed skills, not seek better opportunities. Life is all about decisions, sure there is luck as well, but you make the most of the cards you've been dealt. Read Man's Search for Meaning if you think you have it rough.
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