Increasing the minimum wage would help, not hurt, the economy

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A minimum wage that hasn’t risen since 2009 will only become increasingly unsustainable for the people relying on it, experts say.

“There’s a lot of headroom to raise it [and] workers would benefit,” Autor said. “We can afford to do better.”.

“There’s a lot of headroom to raise it [and] workers would benefit,” Autor said. “We can afford to do better.”

 

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As a standalone maybe... adding new taxes and a lockdown... 20 percent unemployment and people will starve.

If you raise the minimum wage, production and distribution costs will rise as well. In turn, product prices rise. If minimum wage goes from $7.50 an hour to $15 an hour, the price of a McDonalds Big Mac, which is like $6, will just double to $12. It’s called inflation.

I think is better if Biden wins so everyone can see the shit hole they’re getting into .

Your not supposed to live on a minimum wage, if you are your doing it wrong.

Minimum wage increases: ✔Employers cut employees ✔Prices rise ✔Tax on Americans who's wages didn't rise proportionally Basic economics. Wake up. Woke

Under this administration and the Senate majority will never have this happen they think it will hurt small businesses which right now over 100,000 of them may never come back due this deadly pandemic. They don’t believe in helping hard working people of America just the rich

NPSusa I still think making a maximum wage makes more sense CEO compensation packages should never how they are... the greed is a bigger driver of Societal problems than anything else.

* A ‘Federal’ minimum wage has not risen since 2009..... Many States have implemented higher min wage rates, though still too low in many instances.

how much has the cost of living gone up in the last 11 years. The GOP doesn't care. They aren't trying to survive on it. Maybe they should be paid $7.25 an hour

You raise the minimum wage, you raise the fees of everything else. Everything comes with a price (loss of job positions and increases in costs of living).

Trump is against a higher minimum wage! He doesn’t want to pay his employee’s more! Even $15.00 dollars an hour is not keeping up with the cost of living! Trump has NO clue what real people live on!

'Experts' who don't run any businesses

All it does is raise consumer prices. That is why we are paying $7 for a flipping quarter pounder, $6 for a latte and $4 for a gallon of milk. It squeezes out the small businesses and causes the big companies to pass the cost onto consumers. It is economics 101.

Time to get some new “experts”.

State by State issue🤷🏼‍♂️

MAGAts: We don’t deserve a raise! The government said so!

Sure it would. Ask the employees of McDonalds who lost their jobs because they demanded $15 an hour.

A FEDERAL minimum wage. Each state sets its own either at or above the federal minimum

Better vote for Joe Biden he said he would raise the minimum wages for American people

Wow really?

If minimum-wage and kept up with inflation it seems like it would be somewhere around $30 an hour.

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