LogFAQs > #970439347

I mean, I don't know what to do at this point, upping the min wage is probably going to make life so much harder for so many people *sigh*.

We need a serious overhaul tbh, things are getting rediculous. Yeah it's fine for people who retired with tons of money, but if you have retired with just barely enough to get by, you are going to be screwed if the cost of everything keeps going up so fast.

Since I moved to WA min wage jumped by 50%, the rental costs doubled pretty much across the board, food prices have almost doubled as well. Many skilled jobs that used to make a bit more then min wage, are now making only min wage (and even people that worked them for years are making that). Home health aid? Used to have to get 3 months training and started at $14 an hour or so back in 2016 (when I moved here). The training was about $800 as well.

Now they almost all pay within a dollar or 2 of min wage, and people that have been working there since 2016 are still making that as well.

If you boost min wage to $20, I think many people who expected to be able to retire are going to be screwed, people who have social security that pays less than $1000 a month, are going to be screwed, people working jobs that paid between 10-20$ an hour, and have years of experience, are going to be paid the new min wage after all that time, basically screwed.

Not sure what the solution is, but just raising min wage isn't really helping alot of people and it's hurting many of them.