Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by 988747 on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:05AM
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Because minimum wage job is supposed to be temporary. You do it right after high school, for couple years, before you decide on what you want your "real" job to be. Or you do it part time to pay your expenses while attending college. No minimum wage work should be something you do your whole life.
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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by handrous on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:25AM
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I wonder: what's the average age of a worker whose wages would increase if the federal minimum wage increased to $15/hr? There's "supposed" and then there's what's actually happening. I suspect most people in those jobs are not the people you're saying should be doing them.
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by NoGravitas on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:27PM
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The average minimum wage worker is 35. 80% of minimum wage workers are over 20. 56% are women, 28% have children. On average, minimum wage workers earn half of their family's income.
Source: Economic Policy Institute
https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-workers-older-88-percen...
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:59PM
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> Because minimum wage job is supposed to be temporary.
Historically, this is flat-out wrong. It's a lie. It's just a new talking point invented by corporations to convince the population to vote against minimum wage increases.