huinari:

elfwreck:

bogleech:

sharkcloset:

ancientson:

Fuck fight for 15. $15/hr was a goal from ten+ years ago. Fight for $25 at least. And that’s not an exaggeration or a joke. We need a living wage, and $25 is the minimum that that can be. In some places it needs to be higher. I also don’t think rent caps are unreasonable.

y’all should know to keep up with the cost of living, minimum wage should be at least $33/hr.

and that was the calculation back in 2019. it’s definitely higher now. don’t low-ball. demand more pay

Its so funny people think this will hurt the economy by costing businesses more but currently almost EVERYONE who works for a living has to buy the cheapest possible food or go without basic services, car repairs and new clothes for months or years. The more you pay workers, the more money they can circulate back into business. If you’re still worried, take the eternal tax breaks away from billionaires and give them to smaller business owners, no pointless subsidies or bailouts or welfare to big brands ever again. Shit like Walmart and Microsoft are handed billions a year of government money that could instead boost independent business everywhere in the country.

I want Sanders’ “BEZOS Act” to get passed - if you’re a large company and your employees are on gov’t assistance, the gov’t bills you for what they spent on them. Employees with full-time jobs should not need food stamps.

Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity

The gap between what average U.S. workers produce and what they earn has grown ever wider. That's a problem.

cbsnews.com

“The federal minimum wage in the U.S. has remained glued at $7.25 an hour for the last 12 years, the longest stretch without a boost since it was first adopted in 1938.”

Minimum wage should not be a scrape-by-almost-starve wage. It should be a live-frugally, save-a-bit, still get a vacation once a year, and slowly work toward buying a house.

You should be able to go to school full-time on a part-time min-wage job. People could in the 60s and 70s.

I think someone once told me that if a business can’t afford to pay their employees a living wage then the owner shouldn’t be in business, so even the staunchest supporters of capitalism should be fighting for a minimum wage increase if they’re going to go on about how great capitalism is, because otherwise that’s just a glaringly obvious failure