Minimum wage
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Oh that's way easy... illegal labor works like 10x harder and better.
in cali it just got upped to 7.50 on jan 1st. its going to keep going up for the next couple years too till it hits 8 bucks
b/c we are not a small business
you're almost always very thoughtful; so w/ that, please restore my faith in you & explain why the min wage is in need of adjustment to the extent it's soon to be.
My son just started making minimum wage for the first time since he started in the working world 4 years ago. Oregon is like $7.50 or something, his last job was $10 an hour. The least he's made before he started at Subway was $8, so he is learning to adjust.
I think minimum wage affects teens and small businesses that want to hire them. If you've been working for a few years, I would hope you have developed skills to the point of being above the minimum.
I think minimum wage affects teens and small businesses that want to hire them. If you've been working for a few years, I would hope you have developed skills to the point of being above the minimum.
Stinkle has faith in me.
Dude, you think people are supposed to be able to live on it? You crazy?
That 1997 poster needs to be taken down and replaced with a 2007 poster. Minimum wage increased, and will go up in increments up to $7.25 over the next two years.
Massachusetts minimum wage is $7.50 as on 1/1/07.
Massachusetts minimum wage is $7.50 as on 1/1/07.
Exactly where did I even imply that?
I guess your sarcasm meter is not calibrated to the same scale as mine.
can you define that?
Should MW be enough for one person to live alone in a small 1BR apartment with a car and cable TV? Should it be less than that, like requiring roommates to share a 2-3BR apt and taking public transportation? Should it be just enough so a teenager can help out his parents while still saving a few bucks each week for the future?
Why do you hate poor people?
So in NY, it would be about $15-20 an hour, if you lived in NYC/Manhattan?
Or is that figure to low?
seems people have forgotten one very important thing.
IT'S A FRIKKEN JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!
not some kind of entitlement.
if you can't be productive for your employer, then out the door you go.
minmum wage usually goes hand in hand with minimum skills.
why pay some dolt more when more than likely they don't produce enough to make their employer a profit.
the wage is a starting point for teenagers working fast food establishments.
and possibly college kids just trying to get by.
but if you're over the age of 20 and you're still "living" on minimum wage.
that tells me that somewhere along the line you made the wrong choice about educating yourself. (de de deee)
omg....what's that sound??? sounds...like ice forming...I think hell is freezing over, cause I actually agree (mostly) with what dhbuilder is saying....
I wonder if I say his name backwards, will my computer burst into flames?
I wonder if I say his name backwards, will my computer burst into flames?
The term "living wage" is used by advocates to refer to the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living. In the context of developed countries such as the United Kingdom or Switzerland, this standard generally means that a person working forty hours a week, with no additional income, should be able to afford a specified quality or quantity of housing, food, utilities, transport, health care, and recreation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage
Key here I think: In the United States, several municipalities and local governments have enacted ordinances which set a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum for the purpose of requiring all jobs to meet the living wage for that region.
To this end, the job should justify the means. Perhaps there should be non-living wage JOBS. I've not given that point enough thought as of yet.
As a blanket thing, it has many problems, however, so does the current way of things.
Key here I think: In the United States, several municipalities and local governments have enacted ordinances which set a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum for the purpose of requiring all jobs to meet the living wage for that region.
To this end, the job should justify the means. Perhaps there should be non-living wage JOBS. I've not given that point enough thought as of yet.
As a blanket thing, it has many problems, however, so does the current way of things.
We can't know that. We have not even one clue as to the population on other planets. I think we can all agree that Drunken_Ninja proves that extraterrestrials exist
Knuckleslammer knows.
Why should any job be worth less than a living wage?
No one should, but I think the issue is defining "living wage".
To me, a guy sharing an apt with a friend or two, who rides the bus or has a bicycle and can afford to eat everyday is doing well enough.
TVs, cars, etc are luxuries and do not in any way fall under "living wage".
Current minimum wage is enough for shelter, food, and transportation. Want entertainment? Get a book from the library for free.
i think the wage should be uniform everywhere, and po' people should be encouraged to move to the barren wastelands of the midwest, where it's cheap to live. or down in the south to hang out with N8 and buy his handiwork...
Works for me! But don't ask Satan Farm to write your property insurance policy....
Why should someone who works hard be paid more than someone who doesn't?
I think there shouldn't be a minimum wage unless you are under 18. If you are self supporting, then you should be allowed to earn what you are worth. If you're worth a buck an hour, then so be it.
I tip $1 per song at the strip club as a "minimum wage" unless the dancer is truly gifted. Should I tip by the hour instead?
It's actually not hard at all to learn some skill and make a living peforming it. If you're so lazy that you choose instead to cook fries all day, then you deserve to be poor. And even cooking fries, after just a month or so pays more than minimum wage. The idea that real, hard working people are struggling to get by because the minimum wage is too low is just retarded.
QFE45
However, by raising the minimum wage, wages higher in the spectrum get driven up as well...I think that may be more the point.
Everyone should be paid the same. But to do that, other things must change within society as a whole.
lthumbsdown: Yes.
Work is work is work. There are few essential jobs, hence, everyone should be valued the same.
Work is work is work. There are few essential jobs, hence, everyone should be valued the same.
Did you hear that on Dr. Phil or from your guidance counselor? Surely you see the differnce between someone who makes fries and someone who does cancer research. Your little communist schtick is getting old. Maybe try dabbling in reality.
You prefer really white neighborhoods I guess....