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Topic	We should slash the federal minimum and introduce Universal Basic Income.
r4X0r 12/15/19 6:31:47 PM #41:	IllegalAlien posted... What about $5 an hour? What about $3 an hour? What about $2 an hour? What about the fact that $7.25 is already too low. The idea that minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs is out of touch bullshit. Many adults work minimum wage jobs (since I make 6 figures of course I'm considering things like $8 or $10 minimum wage, in fact where I live minimum wage is higher than federal). That just isn't true. You're entitled to your own opinions, but you aren't entitled to your own facts. https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2017 Among those paid by the hour, 542,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. ... Age. Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they made up about half of those paid the federal minimum wage or less. Furthermore, places that have jacked up the minimum wage have found it to be putting people out of work, which is exactly what people on the right said would happen. See: Washington, California, New York. The simple fact of the matter is that minimum wage jobs are for people who don't have any skills. The number of adults trying to support others on minimum wage jobs is so small that they are cared for on a case by case basis. A minimum wage earner with a kid has access to a plethora of welfare programs, which is the system actually working, taking care of people in need. --- insert bad mouthing here <cite>r4X0r posted [p:931631861] in We should ... [t:78256735]...</cite> <quote>IllegalAlien posted... </cite> <quote>What about $5 an hour? What about $3 an hour? What about $2 an hour? What about the fact that $7.25 is already too low. The idea that minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs is out of touch bullshit. Many adults work minimum wage jobs (since I make 6 figures of course I'm considering things like $8 or $10 minimum wage, in fact where I live minimum wage is higher than federal).</quote> That just isn't true. You're entitled to your own opinions, but you aren't entitled to your own facts. https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2017 Among those paid by the hour, 542,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. ... Age. Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they made up about half of those paid the federal minimum wage or less. Furthermore, places that have jacked up the minimum wage have found it to be putting people out of work, which is exactly what people on the right said would happen. See: Washington, California, New York. The simple fact of the matter is that minimum wage jobs are for people who don't have any skills. The number of adults trying to support others on minimum wage jobs is so small that they are cared for on a case by case basis. A minimum wage earner with a kid has access to a plethora of welfare programs, which is the system actually working, taking care of people in need. --- insert bad mouthing here</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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