A pair of progressive Democrats unveiled a bill on Tuesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour, considered the bare minimum a single adult needs to meet the cost of living in much of the US.
The Living Wage For All Act is the first bill to be introduced by the newly sworn-in Rep. Analilia Mejía (D-NJ), who won a special election earlier this month after helping to lead the fight for a $15 minimum wage in her home state of New Jersey.
Can’t wait to hear all the people complaining about this because they’re already making $25 an hour. As though keeping everybody else down will somehow make things better for you.
If you’re making $25 an hour, and the minimum wage changes, you should demand more money for yourself, not less money for other.
Sort of the joke with these bills.
You live in a neighborhood where $30/hr is the functioning poverty line, due to rent and utilities prices skyrocketing. Inflation makes a mockery of a five year phase in for a modern minimum wage.
Why not simply tie wages to inflation off the bat? Or straight up public employment doing work the private sector no longer cares about?
I suspect Mamdani’s public run grocery store will end up paying more than $25/hr in wages by the time it goes live - two years before this wage bump comes into effect
Isn’t it weird how when billionaires make more money “a rising tide raises all boats”, but when the poorest make more money, suddenly there’s extreme resource scarcity?
Rising tide raises all yachts. Most of us can’t afford boats, so we’re just drowned by the tide.
should have pulled yourself up by your bootstraps. /s
Too late, I already cooked and ate my boots.
*hung
Yes, because of trickle-down economics. Didn’t you know that tides come from rain???
I’ve never heard any billionaire claim that; they don’t even pretend to give a fuck. I guess “trickle down theory” is the closest I’ve ever heard.
It’s called “punching down economics”.
Plus they’re still pro-genocide.
As someone that makes around $25, that’s still not even that much money. It definitely feels like a good minimum wage as I can afford my bills and food relatively easily (although it is getting harder as prices go up) but it’s still not really enough to make my life that much more comfortable than it was 5 years ago.
The only complaint I have is that I needed to work for 10 years in order to reach a wage of what would now be considered minimum wage. It’s always seemed like every increase in wages I have ever gotten has been a year or two too late conpared to how expensive everything is. When I was making $14 an hour the average house prices in my area were $100,000 to $300,000. Now that I’m making almost twice as much and could afford a house 8 years ago, house prices in my area average around $400,000 to $800,000 and sometimes over $1,000,000. It’s like I’ve been playing catch up since the day I was born. In my opinion, I should be making $30+ an hour.
$25 an hour treated me extremely well in the southeast with my partner making about the same or at least pre-inflation. Even then that just meant keeping a slightly tighter budget, but still a pretty comfortable life.
So, in other words, it took 80 hours a week to live comfortably at that wage…
I mean we probably could have been okay with less. We did take a trip to Europe lol
But also at the same time kids still felt out of reach. 2 weeks in Europe was about 5k, but even 1 kid would be way more than that. World’s off
Fix poverty and you’ll see a bunch of completely unrelated problems magically disappear.
Which is exactly why rich people love poverty so much. Revenue stream.
The rich also like poverty and homeless so they can use it to scare the masses. “Thinking about asking your boss for a raise, careful. Ask for too much and you’ll be replaced and end up homeless.”
The system requires people to be unemployed. If everyone had a job and paid their bills on time the country would collapse.
Remember that the next time they talk numbers and labor supply.
I’m making about that much and I’m sick of my bosses saying “well it’s a good wage”. I would have so much more ammo for a raise if it was the new minimum. Don’t understand people who don’t understand a rising tide.
Bucket crab ass mentality
By the time this passes we’ll need it to be $30/hr.
Hopefully this can pass and it’ll be tied to inflation.
A swift “well, don’t you think you’re worth more than that” can build many bridges
This is the way.