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MasterSword546 posted...

$2000 a month working two jobs...? I work 20ish hours a week with one job and make more than that. What a stupid thing.

I don't agree with just boosting min wage (you need to boost all wages, not just min wages, or you end up making more people get min wage), but I do think needing to work 80+ hours to just rent a 1 bedroom apartment and eat (nothing else) on min wage, when MANY jobs pay min wage or close, is wrong.

Consider all the places you go in a week. Maybe you go to a few fast food joints, maybe you go to a few sit down resteraunts(olive garden say and...red robin), you might go to the mall and buy some stuff there, and you go to a movie theater for a nice movie. You go to a grocery store and you fill your car up with gas a few times.

Every single one of those places pays their employees minimum wage or close. All those people you interact with....are making under $15 an hour. Yeah, your waitress may makemore due to tips, but the base pay she gets, is min wage (at most, many places pay like $2 an hour and expect tips to make up the rest).

Do you have gardeners working on your lawn etc? They make at most min wage, and probably less (even if you hire someone and pay them more, the workers THEY hire are probably making less then min wage...and probably don't speak English either).

Same with house cleaners, I've hired from many services over the years and have had about 3 that sent people who spoke fluent English.

So yeah, other then at your work, you probably interact with far more people a week that make less then $15 an hour, then people who make more.
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