Let’s not forget server min wage is STILL $2.15 an hour. It was the same in 2000 when I was a bartender.
On this day in 1949, President Harry Truman nearly doubled the federal minimum wage from 40 cents an hour to 75 cents. Our current federal minimum wage of $7.25 was set way back in 2009 and hasn’t increased since. We need a $15 minimum wage to be the national floor—now.
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Good point. Tipping should be abolished and servers should be paid regular wages.
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It was $3.25 in 1979 - 40 years ago. $7.25 is a joke.
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Inflation alone (79-19=354%) would indicate $11.50 assuming that inflation affects everyone equally. It doesn’t - it affects the poor worse.
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I agree! But we need more than that. We need to decouple labor from income, as union legend
@AndyStern_DC wrote in “Raising The Floor.” Yesterday he marched with us for#UniversalBasicIncome to#EndPoverty in America@IncomeMarch — where were you, Senator? We need your voice. -
You will need to ask the same question to
@BernieSanders too!
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Not gonna happen. Cost-of-Living in various parts of the country are too extreme to support a uniform standard Min.Wage.
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I think it's better to say that it'd make lower income (but also lower cost) areas even worse off.
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Many small business could not support it and would fold. There is such a thing as well as a need for low skilled labor. Some occupations just do not command that dollar amount per hour
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current government doesn't give much thought about small business either; did those tax breaks help enough for small biz, or just allow the CEOs to afford another jet or yacht?
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