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milestogo

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11. If you raise the minimum wage, other jobs compensation has to adjust.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Nov 1, 2024, 04:28 PM

Nov 2024

If a job requires a college degree but pays only $18 an hour, how does it make sense for someone working a low skill, minimum wage job to earn $23 an hour. Maybe the college degree jobs need to adjusting, but that is a long, slow process.

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How high is too high for a minimum wage? [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2024 OP

How much money do billionaires need? Basso8vb Oct 2024 #1

The mega company I worked for duncang Oct 2024 #2

Barbara Lee thought the Federal Minimum wage should be $50 per hour when she was running for the Senate MichMan Oct 2024 #3

You still can't but a house in Silicon Valley for $50 an hour. Basso8vb Oct 2024 #4

If $50 per hour isn't close to being adequate, how much should it be? MichMan Oct 2024 #5

You'd get a starter house--maybe--in Holmby Hills if you made $90/hr. Igel Oct 2024 #8

I like to counter the argument with this Metaphorical Oct 2024 #6

What about manufacturing plants that will be outbid by competitors in China and Mexico? MichMan Nov 2024 #12

Ask yourself this Metaphorical Nov 2024 #13

A 40-hour @ $23 job in CA is barely enough to pay for a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles County. LoisB Oct 2024 #7

strange how they always talke about minimum wage Skittles Oct 2024 #9

That minimum better be enough to survive on... justaprogressive Nov 2024 #10

If you raise the minimum wage, other jobs compensation has to adjust. milestogo Nov 2024 #11

But Elessar Zappa Nov 2024 #14

Agreed. milestogo Nov 2024 #15