And they ride bikes everywhere.

You can tell the people that never had a business or 30 employees that think it's ok for the Government to tell them what to pay there employees. More than half the people in the US gain from Government largess, no wonder it's popular. You don't like your wage get a different job.

SniperB......exactly. That's the number I used to figure.

It's much easier to kick and scream and demand that their employer give them what they don't deserve.

I go thru self checkout Walmart , to many mistakes the checkers make an to many times , when get grocery's

Minimum wage should be the least amount someone is willing to do a given job for.

The government has no business setting a minimum wage.

If you can't find anyone willing to work for the pay you are offering, you either raise the pay or do it yourself.

The problem really is, much like health care and college tuition, is that they never look at what the root causes of why X is too expensive...they go straight to more regulation and throw money, that's not even theirs, at it which makes things worse.

Why set the minimum so low? You can't live on $15 bucks an hour! If $15 is good $30 is better right? Lets just do that.

Dang I can live on $15 a hour easily.

I started on the RR at $1.10/hr.(Thats about $6/hr today).A case of 34 molson export ale was $5,a loaf of bread was a quarter and a new elan skidoo was $500.
My first summer job was $5 dollars a day.

Be quite Bruce! I'm trying to get you some more government cheese here!

If $15/hr is gonna b min wage then $2600/month should b min Social Security!!----

I used get close $17 hr plus bonus plus overtime for many years or at times , just 40 hrs for months or occasional layoff a week or 2, then for many months overtime, now one job $13- other 14 hr, 15 bucks hr welcome

I don’t know that I’d want to try and live on $15hr. At least not quite yet anyways, lol. Maybe when I’m collecting my retirement and SS I might work for minimum wage.

$15/hour is about 30 grand annually. That would be tough to live off of nowadays for many families.

Is $15/hr min. wage reality? Pretty much around here it is. If an employer isn't offering close to that they have a sign outside looking for employees. Not saying there aren't employers looking to increase profit for low wages; but the workforce has changed since Covid shutdowns. If you want to work there are plenty of jobs offering pay of $15+ / hr. Now if you can live on $15/hr is a separate question!

It takes two incomes to live now a days. Sixty grand is enough to raise a family on. Minimum wage is usually for non experienced young kids in their first jobs and is not for a family usually. LLL

aren't the union scales somehow related to the minimum wage?
So if minimum wage is 10 then union scale starts at 25
if minimum wage is 15 then union scale starts at 32.5
Just like obamamama's save the "auto industry" was just saving "union voters" so is the min wage increase.

Depends on the part of the country your in.

And what bills other than utilities you have coming In.