DYK: Raising the minimum wage would lift nearly a million people out of poverty. Let’s get it done: http://ofa.bo/h1FQ #RaiseTheWage
“And put about as many on unemployment. Free money!”
DYK: Raising the minimum wage would lift nearly a million people out of poverty. Let’s get it done: http://ofa.bo/h1FQ #RaiseTheWage
“And put about as many on unemployment. Free money!”
If raising the minimum wage a little bit does so much good, why don’t they just raise it to $30 bucks an hour and declare total victory?
They should raise it to a million dollars an hour because it’s not fair that only a few people get to be billionaires.
A million? That’s nice. So does that mean we can kiss off the other 45.5 million poor people? “In 2012, 46.5 million people were living in poverty in the United States” — Data from U. S. Census Bureau and other published reports. National Center for Law and Economic Justice
…wouldn’t be the first time Hussein Al-Barak (peace be upon him) pushed a policy that causes great harm to the whole nation for the benefit for a very small group – a million people is barely 1/3 of 1% of the population of this country.
minimum wage jobs are not intended to keep people (or entire families) out of poverty. they’re intended to be entry level jobs where you learn valuable skills and advance rather than make a career out of demanding a middle class lifestyle. The reason wages are depressed for certain skilled jobs is because our government continues to look the other way while cheap labor is illegally imported. Before you know it, jobs that shouldn’t be subject to minimum wage, are.
And cause the price of everything to go up, so the extra money you have buys less and it’s like you never got a raise, except it’s more work since the other guy got laid off and you now have to do the work of two people.
The other 45.5 million wouldn’t work anyway. They are getting free stuff from the people who make above minimum wage. But if they raise MW, how many people who make more than current MW suddenly end up making MW. Bet that’s depressing.
Every time the minimum wage goes up, my wage gets closer to the minimum.
The minimum wage is $0, let’s raise it 100000000%!!!11!!1!!
….yeah, that’ll work…
let’s see how rich we’ll be…
$0 x 100000000% =$0
Oh well, guess we’ll just have to stay on welfare.