a lot of my neighbors in my apartment building work minimum wage jobs, and they support the minimum wage increase and i don't blame them. the problem is, from the few conversations i have had with them, they vote with their wallet and they don't really care about anything in politics outside of what the politicians can do for them. i would not be surprised if a lot of minimum wage workers feel the same. if dems manage to pass a $15 min wage, they will get a lot of voters who would have otherwise voted republican because of the tax cuts, simply because an increase in minimum wage is money directly in their pockets.
Idk, less than 2% of the work force makes the federal minimum wage. We will see. The dems argue that this will get people off benefits, but it won't, they'll just cut their hours to stay below the threshold, its only logical. They should just leave it up to the states, what is stopping single party California from adopting a $15 minimum wage?
i mean, california already passed a $15 minimum wage, but not immediately. last two years it was $12, and this year it is $13 if there are 25 or less employees and $14 if there are 26 or more. i think next year is when it kicks up to $15.
many states all have simiilar situations too, where $15 was already passed and they are just gradually increasing it over a period of 2-3 years.
in fact the effective average national minimum wage in the US is right around $12-13 an hour already (and has been for several years now) and we don't see a lot of adverse effects. making it federal would only really serve to standardize it across the nation.
minimum wage is definitely not the hill to die on.
a lot of my neighbors in my apartment building work minimum wage jobs, and they support the minimum wage increase and i don't blame them. the problem is, from the few conversations i have had with them, they vote with their wallet and they don't really care about anything in politics outside of what the politicians can do for them. i would not be surprised if a lot of minimum wage workers feel the same. if dems manage to pass a $15 min wage, they will get a lot of voters who would have otherwise voted republican because of the tax cuts, simply because an increase in minimum wage is money directly in their pockets.
Idk, less than 2% of the work force makes the federal minimum wage. We will see. The dems argue that this will get people off benefits, but it won't, they'll just cut their hours to stay below the threshold, its only logical. They should just leave it up to the states, what is stopping single party California from adopting a $15 minimum wage?
i mean, california already passed a $15 minimum wage, but not immediately. last two years it was $12, and this year it is $13 if there are 25 or less employees and $14 if there are 26 or more. i think next year is when it kicks up to $15.
many states all have simiilar situations too, where $15 was already passed and they are just gradually increasing it over a period of 2-3 years.
in fact the effective average national minimum wage in the US is right around $12-13 an hour already (and has been for several years now) and we don't see a lot of adverse effects. making it federal would only really serve to standardize it across the nation.
minimum wage is definitely not the hill to die on.