This is still less than some areas’ true living wage in this country. Look up essentially any city here, and you’ll find its living wage is often much higher than both the current minimum wage, the most frequently proposed $15 increase, and this new $25 increase.
Minimum wages should be living wages, not the bare minimum to not starve unless you even temporarily lose your job and are now deemed ineligible to live.
74% of Democrats (center-right), and 55% of voters overall (left, center, and right combined) support a minimum wage increase to $25/hour. This is not a fringe idea.
while alienating the moderate left people who are just trying to make their small businesses work.
When minimum wages rise, small businesses find it easier and cheaper to hire new employees, face less turnover, and are able to charge a high enough price to cover the newly increased cost without inflating prices faster than the minimum wage.
Raising the minimum wage for everyone benefits individuals, small businesses, and the economy at large. It even reduces the high school dropout rate!
Pushing a broadly popular issue relating to affordability at a time when economic uncertainty is around the highest it’s ever been is an incredibly good strategy to win elections.
This is still less than some areas’ true living wage in this country. Look up essentially any city here, and you’ll find its living wage is often much higher than both the current minimum wage, the most frequently proposed $15 increase, and this new $25 increase.
Minimum wages should be living wages, not the bare minimum to not starve unless you even temporarily lose your job and are now deemed ineligible to live.
https://livingwage.mit.edu/
74% of Democrats (center-right), and 55% of voters overall (left, center, and right combined) support a minimum wage increase to $25/hour. This is not a fringe idea.
https://www.onefairwage.org/research-reports/poll-testing-%2425-minimum-wage-in-competitive-congressional-districts
When minimum wages rise, small businesses find it easier and cheaper to hire new employees, face less turnover, and are able to charge a high enough price to cover the newly increased cost without inflating prices faster than the minimum wage.
Raising the minimum wage for everyone benefits individuals, small businesses, and the economy at large. It even reduces the high school dropout rate!
https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/03/14/even-in-small-businesses-minimum-wage-hikes-dont-cause-job-losses-study-finds/
Pushing a broadly popular issue relating to affordability at a time when economic uncertainty is around the highest it’s ever been is an incredibly good strategy to win elections.
You brought receipts. Thank you.