My wallet says yes but my brain says no.
Each state has its own challenges. It does not make sense for a place like Arkansas to have the same minimum wage as California. The real problem isn’t minimum wage it is the cost of living!
We can keep raising pay but it doesn’t not fix the issues.
Not to double, The minimum wage was for Part time and student workers !!! The oligarchs like Walmart took advantage of the part time workers to get wealthier and pay no benefits and pay minimum wage !!!! Use the minimum wage for what it was intended and appropriately fine corporations enough playing the system to revive their policies for full time employment with benefits !!!!!
You are wrong about Walmart paying minimum wage. That is the starting point. You get extra for points such as work in public, years of service at last job etc.
Poll mising.
No, to $15/hr. Maybe to $8.50/hr. In capitalism there has always been the minimum wage as a minimum for people who are starting out in the workforce. The whole idea was to develop skills show, dependability, and consistency, ambition, and when a person shows those things then the business owner raises their level of pay. No one should start out at $15 an hour. There are several professions where professionals with a college education get $15 an hour. A person could argue that they should get paid more, but they chose those professions. And they also have the right to change their profession and since they have a college education that leaves them free to find a profession that will pay them more for their skills. That’s what free enterprise is. It was never designed that a high school student that works at McDonald’s stay at McDonald’s as a cashier for the rest of their lives. They have choices to either work their way up the ladder, or find a different position that acknowledges their skill set and their ambition and desire to work. So no, the government should not make the minimum wage $15 an hour, but they could raise it just a little bit, if it’s been too many years since there was a slight raise. Again, teenagers living at home don’t need to be making $15 an hour when people who have worked for 15 and 20 years Are making $15 an hour. Businesses can only sustain so much wages without cutting jobs, and that would be extremely detrimental.
No to a doubling for sure. It amazes me how like everything else this gets politicized and distorted for financial gain of politicians. Minimum wage is not a wage or for jobs that would support a family. My gosh people! This is America. You have every opportunity to better yourself in order to obtain a job that adds value or to start your own business. Zero skill or low skill jobs are not to be $15 an hour or greater.
No, the minimum wage was set for beginning workers to learn job skills so that they could move up the ladder. If anything doubling the MW would insure workers stay on the bottom rung and never advance.
Not that high right away. Smaller increments over time. Most people don’t get that much % in a raise
I voted yes but not 15.00. 10.00 would be ok
Minimum Wage $7.25 an hour is $290.00 a week before taxes. SS and Medicare are 7.65% deduction.
Maybe to 8.00 or 10.00 dollars, but not 15.00. Inflation is high enough. Minimum wage job should be stepping stone jobs for high school college students.
Cuts need to be at the top for CEOs and Executives to reduce the cost of materials, food and such.
Not that high. If a skilled worker is at $20/hr and minimum wage is at $15/hr that will kill the skilled trades as they will need $30-40/ hr. Otherwise there is no monetary benefit to having a skill and working hard. Maybe $8-9/hr would help but no $15.
Yes, but not $15, maybe $8 or $9. I went to Iceland in 2017. My hosts there warned of raising the minimum wage to $15 as being proposed in the US and states like CA. They said that in Iceland it was raised to $15 and immediately the cost of everything shot up tremendously. Having things expensive to begin with because of so much having to be imported, it was a big hit to everyone. It did not make much difference in affordability to the now higher paid workers.
Yes, increase the Federal minimum wage, but not double it. $8.75 might be a more reasonable mark. Many states have their own minimum wage, usually significantly more than the federal minimum wage.
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My wallet says yes but my brain says no.
Each state has its own challenges. It does not make sense for a place like Arkansas to have the same minimum wage as California. The real problem isn’t minimum wage it is the cost of living!
We can keep raising pay but it doesn’t not fix the issues.
Not to double, The minimum wage was for Part time and student workers !!! The oligarchs like Walmart took advantage of the part time workers to get wealthier and pay no benefits and pay minimum wage !!!! Use the minimum wage for what it was intended and appropriately fine corporations enough playing the system to revive their policies for full time employment with benefits !!!!!
You are wrong about Walmart paying minimum wage. That is the starting point. You get extra for points such as work in public, years of service at last job etc.
Poll mising.
No, to $15/hr. Maybe to $8.50/hr. In capitalism there has always been the minimum wage as a minimum for people who are starting out in the workforce. The whole idea was to develop skills show, dependability, and consistency, ambition, and when a person shows those things then the business owner raises their level of pay. No one should start out at $15 an hour. There are several professions where professionals with a college education get $15 an hour. A person could argue that they should get paid more, but they chose those professions. And they also have the right to change their profession and since they have a college education that leaves them free to find a profession that will pay them more for their skills. That’s what free enterprise is. It was never designed that a high school student that works at McDonald’s stay at McDonald’s as a cashier for the rest of their lives. They have choices to either work their way up the ladder, or find a different position that acknowledges their skill set and their ambition and desire to work. So no, the government should not make the minimum wage $15 an hour, but they could raise it just a little bit, if it’s been too many years since there was a slight raise. Again, teenagers living at home don’t need to be making $15 an hour when people who have worked for 15 and 20 years Are making $15 an hour. Businesses can only sustain so much wages without cutting jobs, and that would be extremely detrimental.
No to a doubling for sure. It amazes me how like everything else this gets politicized and distorted for financial gain of politicians. Minimum wage is not a wage or for jobs that would support a family. My gosh people! This is America. You have every opportunity to better yourself in order to obtain a job that adds value or to start your own business. Zero skill or low skill jobs are not to be $15 an hour or greater.
No, the minimum wage was set for beginning workers to learn job skills so that they could move up the ladder. If anything doubling the MW would insure workers stay on the bottom rung and never advance.
Not that high right away. Smaller increments over time. Most people don’t get that much % in a raise
I voted yes but not 15.00. 10.00 would be ok
Minimum Wage $7.25 an hour is $290.00 a week before taxes. SS and Medicare are 7.65% deduction.
Maybe to 8.00 or 10.00 dollars, but not 15.00. Inflation is high enough. Minimum wage job should be stepping stone jobs for high school college students.
Cuts need to be at the top for CEOs and Executives to reduce the cost of materials, food and such.
Not that high. If a skilled worker is at $20/hr and minimum wage is at $15/hr that will kill the skilled trades as they will need $30-40/ hr. Otherwise there is no monetary benefit to having a skill and working hard. Maybe $8-9/hr would help but no $15.
Yes, but not $15, maybe $8 or $9. I went to Iceland in 2017. My hosts there warned of raising the minimum wage to $15 as being proposed in the US and states like CA. They said that in Iceland it was raised to $15 and immediately the cost of everything shot up tremendously. Having things expensive to begin with because of so much having to be imported, it was a big hit to everyone. It did not make much difference in affordability to the now higher paid workers.
Yes, increase the Federal minimum wage, but not double it. $8.75 might be a more reasonable mark. Many states have their own minimum wage, usually significantly more than the federal minimum wage.