#Wage

Black Label Logic

Blacklabellogic

To follow up on the living wage tweet:If a job doesn't pay a living wage to full-time employees there are 2 options:1. Get a second job 2. Get government subsidies

talia JANE

itsa_talia

the only way this is praise-worthy is if alongside it, housing prices are frozen and/or forcibly rolled back to ensure that rent is less than 30% of a minimum wage

Aren R. LeBrun

proustmalone

The minimum wage should be $25 per hour. All of the biggest employers in the United States could afford a $25/hour minimum wage and still turn a profit for shareholders.

Mark Price

price_laborecon

In thinking about the proposal today to raise the minimum wage gradually to $15 by 2025 one thing that is important to keep in mind is the rise in inequality

Clive Mansa

clivemansa

There's a very good reason we don't let politicians set interest rates or the money supply: they're short-sighted and constrained by the whims of constituents. This is not an insult,

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

Wow. here's something interesting—this bill is actually considerably BETTER than the symbolic minimum wage bill the Dems passed in the House in 2019. https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/RAISE%20THE%20WAGE%20ACT%20-%20Fact%20Sheet.

Ibrahim Sani

ibrahimsaninet

On minimum wage, Interviewed a business owner yesterday, company has about 50 employees, PBT about rm500k. Decent.He was arguing vehemently against raising min wage. Says that’ll destroy his business. Says

Ariel "Buy Witchy" Ries

cousineggplant

cannot stress how few artists (even the ones with big followings) are actually making a liveable wage from their art and how much a liveable wage is not actually "wealth"

hey julie why won't they defund the police

himissjulie

Public libraries exist for the public good and they should demonstrate how workplaces should treat workers. Public libraries should offer paid sick time to all staff, move towards a real

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

Looks like we all talk about this roughly every 5 years, so here was my discussion on this from 2015: https://arindube.com/2015/04/19/public-assistance-private-subsidies-and-low-wage-jobs/ I mostly agree with Ioana. At the same time,

Sandy Pug Games

SandyPugGames

min wage used to go up more often because min wage going up happened pretty often and was normalized. then it stopped and we're trying to live in 2021 with

Anthony Russo

Anthony15Russo

I find it funny when people say “raising the minimum wage to $15/hr is a bad idea, it’s basic economics.”And they’re right—basic economics gives us reasons why a $15/hr is

Nick Fink

finkn23

When I worked in radio and at a hotel. I was paid $10 an hour at each. I usually worked 35-55 hours a week between both jobs and depending on

Aaron Lockhart 🇺🇸

arabbitorduck

If minimum wage rises to $15/hr, someone who now makes minimum wage ($7.25/hr) will still be a minimum wage worker.Additionally, everyone above them, to the current $15/hr mark, will *become*

GrumpyPhilosopher

SteveCooke

The stuff about etiquette in this is bullshit frankly, but it does raise some interesting questions. The primary duty-bearer for playing a decent wage to delivery staff ought to be

RR Seattle

RRalstonAgile

Once upon a time, I thought that it was perfectly appropriate for restaurant workers to earn less than minimum wage. Tipping, in my view, was a means for customers to

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