Best Posts in Thread: The United States Federal Minimum Wage

If you're fresh out of college and a minimum wage job is your only option you need to really reevaluate your decision in making feminist dance therapy your major.

 

Because $15 an hour is basically how much a college graduate will be making fresh out of college and that seems quite a lot for jobs that require significantly less skill and education. Not less because it's not really much more liveable and not more because it would probably destableize the economy if everyone was making enough money from very easy jobs. It defeats the incentive of higher education. Most I think would be fair would be $12, but that's stretching it imo.

 

Supposed to is no longer relevant due to the enormous amount of people living off of it now. It's not just fast food, but many factories start at 9 or 10. Most retail stores also begin at those wages. Whether or not it was intended to be lived off does change the fact that millions now do, which ends up being a heavy cost to society.

 

So since we owe money to other countries we shouldn't carry about personal rights?