I can get a two dollar raise…
Well it’s better than the FUCKING CONCENTRATION CAMP I’d get from the other guy
Doubling the federal minimum wage would be $14.0 not $15
$15/hr works out to be about 30k/yr. That’s not enough to live on. We need a $30 minimum wage. It needs to be indexed to both inflation as well as congressional salary. If they get a raise, everyone gets a raise.
Yeah that fight for 15 was in 2016. We are way past that fight needs to be fucking 25 to 30. But watch every single fucking Republican will vote against any increases of minimum wage. 7.25 is a fucking joke and law makers should be fucking ashame of themselves.
Actually any of them vote no on a raise should have all their money seized and made to live on minimum wage for 5 years.
Good!
Now also link it to yearly inflation annually in December!
Name a more iconic duo than politicians and making promises that rely on the cooperation of other branches of government.
Not voting in enough Democrats into Congress to do anything and saying the Democrats didn’t actually want to do anything
Politicians being bought and sold to the highest bidder of the campaign trail.
fight for 15 years late
If the house and Senate approve. She can’t just do it on her own
This was literally her supposed signature issue when she was running with Biden.
She didn’t fight for it at all.
Whaaaaat??
A politician making a bunch of claims right before an election and then never following through on them?
Say it ain’t so! Not in my America!
Yeah it’s lying season. Both sides are telling us what they think we want to hear.
This election does seem a little weird. Kamala feels like more of the same but Tim walz is right, Trump and his supporters are really kind of weird and creepy.
I believe all promises that are made within the last 30 days of an election!
Wait, doubling it -to- 15 dollars an hour? Holy shit, I knew it was bad, but that is insane. Ours is already starting to feel too low at 17.40 here in Canada, granted that is about the equivalent of around $12.50 USD. So it’s lower than what she is proposing, maybe if she manages it, we’ll be able to get ours up.
It’d only put the US at 5th in the world for minimum wage, which considering the cost of living in the US vs most other countries.
The last place I worked upped their minimum wage to $10 an hour. It certainly wasn’t because of benevolence or federal shifts…they slowly realized that when you pay the absolute minimum, you only attract the minimum talent, and most of those positions had very high turnover rates that were costing the company more than it’d be to just raise the starting pay rates.
It was cheaper to pay those positions more money.
Unfortunately in my state where the minimum wage is higher than the federal, many service industry companies refuse to learn that lesson. Or they think 16 cents above minimum wage is enough to attract top tier talent.
Yeah, the states have been moving towards 15, but the national minimum wage has been stuck for a few decades. And also yes, 15 is already way too low.
Even the McDonalds around here know that even the most desperate laugh at 7.25 an hour
Most states have their own minimum wage laws at this point. Not all of them. So this will help a handful of mostly-red states.
It varies by province and at the federal level in Canada, 17.40 is for BC specifically, Alberta and Saskatchewan are the lowest at 15, Nunavut is the highest at 19 and it’s 17.30 for jobs under federal jurisdiction.
And note that her wording was “at least $15”, so she’s signaling openness to doing more than that
$15.05 an hour! Increasing at a rate of 11 cents per year from the current minimum of $7.25 Except tipped workers; they still get $2.13.
Good, because “fight for $15” has been going on so long that the real number to regain parity with what minimum wage used to be is a lot higher than that by now.
Surely we’ll get it this time.
I doubt many people make anywhere close to minimum, but no excuse not to raise it!
5-years ago? Yep, we had tons of clients paying rock bottom, or close enough. I’m not in the payroll business anymore, but the jobs my wife was looking at as a preschool teacher were $12+, and that job always pays shit. Walmart and Target start at $15, or more.
All this is a small town where you would expect small wages. I was in Manhattan in 1992 and was astounded at the prices. Ask my native friend how people survived on minimum wage. He looked at me funny and laughed, “Dude. No one gets minimum wage. $10 is as low as it goes.”
Good news on one of those shit paying clients! They were really hurting and the new CEO turned everything around in a couple of years. At that time, they started paying $12, paying benefits and paying for education.
Economies work from the bottom up and never the top down. The more money people have, the more money they can spend, and thus the more goods and services they can buy, and thus the more demand there is, and thus the more supply there will be.
This has been my argument for years. If you want a strong economy have a strong middle class…they’re the ones with the disposable income.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Seems every candidate has promised this for as long as I’ve been following American politics and no one actually manages it.
She’s yet to pull out “I will lower taxes!” card that’s been over-promised. “I will lower inflation rates!” card that’s been over-promised.
So many empty promises from any politician that has ever said those.
Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe that working families deserve a break. That’s why under their plan more than 100 million working and middle-class Americans will get a tax cut.
Dang that is a lot of trackers
Sorry, Google is a real bitch sometimes
Not even mad! Impressed.
And if you read the document associated, its because they are pushing to raise on the $400+k/yr taxes.
Its a bit of an overview of course, but there is meat of course.
Based
They’ll blame someone other than their ineptitude in governing
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
That’s great!
Certain burger-flipping former presidents have legal fees to pay and this goes a LONG way to making due.
