not relevant. It's not based on keeping up with inflation and never was. It's a minimum wage only designed to keep slave wages eliminated. It's not supposed to finance a family of 4.
People shouldn't make a career out of fast food and minimum wage isn't meant to be a living wage.
It's a job regardless of your thoughts on fast food. It should absolutely be enough to survive on.
Our teenagers make more than your adults. Sickening.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=3.50&year1=1980&year2=2014
$3.50 had the same buying power in 1980 as $10.04 in 2014.
Minimum wage btw is $7.25 now.
this is rich coming from the guy who won't readjust/survive/move forward making profits on his own.
People shouldn't make a career out of fast food and minimum wage isn't meant to be a living wage.
You said early 80s. Not "1982"
Santa Fe, NM raised its minimum wage years ago to $10.29. Despite the conservatives' dire forecast, businesses have not shuttered for want of clientele, nor have there been mass layoffs.
Santa Fe, NM raised its minimum wage years ago to $10.29. Despite the conservatives' dire forecast, businesses have not shuttered for want of clientele, nor have there been mass layoffs.
Yes, linking the Consumer Products Index.1982 is early 80's, and I said 3.35/hr not your 3.50. Regardless, it's not the over dramatized scenario you posted.
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I dunno what I think about making it $15 truly, but where it is now seems a bit low. Maybe $10/hr would feel better to me.
Truthfully I don't think that fast food working is meant to be a livable wage. I know people who work in restaurants as an adult which pays better, but not fast food. You get paid for the amount of training required IMO. Fast food takes like no training which is why it's full of HS students working or those who don't speak english well.