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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 7:51:13 GMT -6
Are you in favor of raising the minimum wage? Ive heard arguments that if you raise the wage then people wont train into skilled positions. On facebook I see people who are in those type of positions complaining that fast food workers dont deserve a higher wage. I guess as one of the unskilled I would want a wage increase. Im not in a position to be educated due to my illness (Ive tried and failed) but that doesnt mean others arent able to. I think that reducing the cost of school and raising the wage a tad would help offset the student loan debt, making it easier for students to work part time and attend college.
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Post by shadowmaker on May 30, 2015 8:52:09 GMT -6
I do support a minimum wage increase along with a reduction in the cost of college. Problem is, with a minimum wage increase the cost of living also raises. Now for someone like me would probably not gain more money due to the wage increase, but would be affected by the cost of living increase. So as nice as it sounds, it comes with consequence.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 9:11:14 GMT -6
Well someone somewhere is getting rich and it aint the working class i tell ya
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Post by shadowmaker on May 30, 2015 9:41:43 GMT -6
Lol well, if you get your own successful business........
I like working, keeps me active! And it feels good to have a job even when broke lol ok paying a debt off is screwing things up for me now, but at least the debt will be paid. However, its putting my place of living at risk. The past few months have been incredibly difficult financially. Still have another month to go before its finished. But my worry of losing my apartment is high. Sure I've got it figured out, but there's a what if for june hanging on my head. And I can't just afford to move because you know that costs money that I don't have. *shrugs* day by day
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Post by shadowmaker on Aug 5, 2015 11:24:45 GMT -6
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Post by violet on Aug 5, 2015 18:17:00 GMT -6
The high cost of living here means if you're on minimum wage (which is around $17 US):
- you have to share living space because renting on your own would mean eating 3-minute noodles every night
- you have to share transport - ie. carpool or borrow a bike!
- sharing food costs
Even after paying for all that you don't have much left over, so you can't spend on fancy things! (like Smashing Pumpkins stuff)
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Post by shadowmaker on Aug 6, 2015 9:55:57 GMT -6
I make more than the minimum wage. And I can't afford my place and bills on my paychecks. Working overtime gives extra, but it's beyond exhausting.
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Post by violet on Aug 6, 2015 21:08:56 GMT -6
I've seen places that can't afford to pay a higher minimum wage reduce their worker's hours, so a full time job went to part-time...which means either doing more work in less time or they have got volunteers to do the extra work. If businesses can't pay the wages they are more likely to get work done in China...or get private prisons to do the work. Obviously jobs like retail and trades where someone needs to be there to service a customer that won't happen - but any production will disappear overseas or into prisons. yikes  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 14:49:04 GMT -6
What sucks about raising the minimum wage is that the people already working will not get raises to compensate for the raises they already earned
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Post by shadowmaker on Aug 12, 2015 19:03:02 GMT -6
And those who had to work from the bottom and earn raises don't get compensated until the few cents raise comes in. At least these folks get a better raise by this than what many companies would give them
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Post by shadowmaker on Sept 13, 2015 17:26:45 GMT -6
Gee how about equal pay for a woman who does more work than the man at work smh
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Post by shadowmaker on Dec 12, 2015 17:01:54 GMT -6
So once you hit 60 hours a week the government really rapes you for taxes. Lol I'm gonna make sure I come just under that this coming week lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 11:09:21 GMT -6
My city just passed a law for minimum wage to be 15 dollars an hour.
So that means I would need a pay raise for my particular job as management?
Although, I could quit managing and have less stress with responsibilities and have decent pay and still keep my benefits. If course this is a gradual increase of minimum wage to happen over the next few years.
Not to mention my company fought in court to not have to pay people the minimum wage increase of 10 dollars per hour so they pay 9.50 which is less than pretty much every business except I know the liquor store apparently pays only 9.50 and that's a small business.
Its mind boggling
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Post by oopsiedaisy on Jul 1, 2017 8:58:37 GMT -6
Watch the prices go up
A gallon of milk is you going to cost nearly 7 bucks.
This is not going to work out in favor of the people.
Gas prices will probably go up too
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Post by mskied on Aug 8, 2017 18:20:51 GMT -6
I made up an equation of what a living wage should be according to the ideals of life, love and the pursuit of happiness.
First I broke it down to how much it would take to meet the basic needs of a single person. Food, Shelter, Health Insurance, Transportation.
I gave a very modest amount to the housing, an amount that is probably too low. Given the cost of these, with an additional 200 dollars a month to spend on personal interests (because I deserve to pursue that as an American) Thats about 27,000 a year. A job would have to pay 15 dollars an hour to cover those costs. This is not including things like laundry, cable, telephone, clothes, soap, personal hygiene items like toilet paper and what not, or dental care.
Considering that most of us live on a third of that wage is pretty eye opening to just how unjust this whole thing is.
A friend told me that if the wealth was equally distributed through all the country (or world, cant remember) that each household would be earning 700,000 dollars a year. THATS how screwed up this all is!
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