Should minimum wage be raised? Absolutely to what? $?$?$

I won't quote a dollar numbers. What I will say, is that it needs to be a single living wage.

Defined as enough for a teen out of high school to reasonably afford Rent of a 1 bedroom apartment, transportation, food, healthcare, education.

INDEPENDENT of mom and dad at the rate of 40 hours a week. 160 hours a month or less.

That's supposed to be the minimum. Not the top tier of the skilled pay scale. More skilled trades should be paying FAMILY LIVING WAGES. Which of Defined as a wage that is MODESTLY capable of SELF SUFFICIENTLY supporting a family of 4 at the rate of 160 work hours a month 40 hours a week.

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Canuckle · 51-55, M

Years ago - in the olden days - $10 an hour gave you basement suite, a junker but functional car, food, the ability to pay for a date out at least once a week, and still save a little money to buy a house. Minimum wage at the time was $4.50. So if we use the same ratio at todays prices the “living wage” would need to be about $30 / hr in order to potentially sustain society. Rental costs shouldn’t be 50-70 percent of a persons wage. Vehicles shouldn’t be 25-40% of a persons monthly wage. This is not sustainable. Either there needs to be a “living wage” or the economy needs to be blown up and a redo or concede that the 60-80 hour work week has returned. Or maybe just live with one’s folks until they retire.

Alabamarednek · 36-40, M

@Canuckle the problem we havr now is thay less then a dozen companies control every aspect of the true value of dollar who lowball and slide the value of a dollar in bad faith praying on less educated. I refuse to quote dollar numbers and will quote the equation 160 work hours a month to fit the cost of living into.

Not 320 work hours a month. Not 250 work hours a month with 80 overtime work hours. And it IS AFFORDABLE.