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Surviving Off of $7.25 An Hour

This is just rent
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Impossible for a minimum wage worker to pay rent, buy food, and supply transportation, and please don't have children - even at eight or nine dollars an hour. One must work two jobs at least....... Will Vice President Kamala Harris try to change this, she indicates she will
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Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
She can't change anything. She could raise minimum wage to $100 an hour, but life will adjust the cost of everything else along with it.
SDavis · 56-60, F
@Musicman yep the greedy large corporations will increase their prices. But at least those of the lowest income will have more of a fighting chance not all minimum wage workers are Black or Hispanic or on welfare
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298873/number-of-workers-with-earnings-at-or-below-min-wage-in-the-us-by-ethnicity/
Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
@SDavis No they are not. Minimum wage was designed for teenage kids and people entering the workforce. I would seriously hope no one inspires to work for minimum wage forever. Instead of raising minimum wage how about applying and moving up.
SDavis · 56-60, F
@Musicman maybe in the world you live in minimum wage was designed for teenage kids and people entering the workforce - but in this America minimum wage was designed by the government after the Great depression of the 1930s as a means to help people get back on their feet ** and it was 25 cents per hour and many people were paid less - it wasn't heard of then to just go and file a complaint against a company.
https://www.epi.org/blog/a-history-of-the-federal-minimum-wage-85-years-later-the-minimum-wage-is-far-from-equitable/

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart

What country do you live in - making the statement why don't you move up and the statement people won't work for minimum wage all their lives __ as if they had the money to go to college or a form of community college - and some people with college degrees have to work for the minimum wage may or may not advance live at home with Mama __ you talk as if those on minimum wage would be hired without the credentials called for today. 90% of the people on minimum wage stay on minimum wage. And I said 90% not 100%, some do advance.

Like Trump said the migrants are taking Black jobs and those Black jobs he was referring to are low income, minimum wage jobs.
https://equitablegrowth.org/why-minimum-wages-are-a-critical-tool-for-achieving-racial-justice-in-the-u-s-labor-market/

https://www.epi.org/blog/workers-of-color-are-far-more-likely-to-be-paid-poverty-level-wages-than-white-workers/

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/its-long-past-time-to-increase-the-federal-minimum-wage/

I guess Trump forgot about the over 600,000 whites that work for the minimum wage
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298873/number-of-workers-with-earnings-at-or-below-min-wage-in-the-us-by-ethnicity/

You know exactly what you sound like but there's nothing new
Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
@SDavis I truly feel sorry for you.
SDavis · 56-60, F
@Musicman I don't require your pity - I haven't been blinded _ feel sorry for yourself they just may come when you will .... https://www.bible.com/bible/compare/2TH.2.11-12