House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

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Hope this legislation gets passed. as $15.00/hr =  $ 31,200/ year  barely enough  to cover rent. heath insurance, food, clothing for a family --- as my one son has learned.

 

 

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Largest  US employers: Walmart, McDonald's, Amazon, Kroger, Dollar General  biggest companies whose employees get federal government assistance despite working full time.

Employers are not paying a wage employees can live on  WITHOUT requiring government Medicaid/SNAP food assistance, then current Federal Government minimum wage regulations need revision to keep up with current cost of living.  Employees would then not qualify for federal benefits, reducing cost to taxpayers..

 

CNBC  11/19/2020

Walmart and McDonald’s are among top employers of Medicaid and food stamp beneficiaries, report says
 

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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.

The GAO analyzed February data from Medicaid agencies in six states and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — known as SNAP, or food stamps — agencies in nine states.

Walmart was the top employer of Medicaid enrollees in three states and one of the top four employers in the remaining three states. The retailer was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states

McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.

Other notable companies with a large number of employees on federal aid include Amazon, Kroger, Dollar General, and other food service and retail giants.

About 70% of the 21 million federal aid beneficiaries worked full time, the report found....

 

 

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4 minutes ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Largest  US employers: Walmart, McDonald's, Amazon, Kroger, Dollar General  biggest companies whose employees get federal government assistance despite working full time.

Employers are not paying a wage employees can live on  WITHOUT requiring government Medicaid/SNAP food assistance, then current Federal Government minimum wage regulations need revision to keep up with current cost of living.  Employees would then not qualify for federal benefits, reducing cost to taxpayers..

 

CNBC  11/19/2020

Walmart and McDonald’s are among top employers of Medicaid and food stamp beneficiaries, report says
 

 

Do you think people should expect to make a career of operating a cash register or assembling hamburgers?

So, what is a acceptable wage?  Who and how is that determined?

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4 hours ago, Beerman said:

Do you think people should expect to make a career of operating a cash register or assembling hamburgers?

So, what is a acceptable wage?  Who and how is that determined?

Yes and yes. 

An acceptable wage is one that allows a full-time employee to meet their essential needs for food and shelter. 

MIT living wage calculation

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An analysis of the living wage, compiling geographically specific expenditure data for food, childcare, health care, housing, transportation, and other basic necessities, finds that:

The living wage in the United States is $16.54 per hour, or $68,808 per year, in 2019, before taxes for a family of four (two working adults, two children), compared to $16.14 in 2018.

The minimum wage does not provide a living wage for most American families. A typical family of four (two working adults, two children) needs to work nearly four full-time minimum-wage jobs (a 75-hour work week per working adult) to earn a living wage. Single-parent families need to work almost twice as hard as families with two working adults to earn the living wage. A single-mother with two children earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour needs to work 138 hours per week, nearly the equivalent of working 24 hours per day for six days, to earn a living wage.

 

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Long Beach CA just passed an ordinance raising pay for grocery store workers, so as of April 17, Kroger is closing two stores permanently.  The stores were already under performing as many grocery stores operate at a loss anyway, and Kroger was already paying increased wages for Corona virus "heroes".  Preemptive move.  An acceptable wage is a wage that is more than nothing.

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5 hours ago, Beerman said:

Do you think people should expect to make a career of operating a cash register or assembling hamburgers?

So, what is a acceptable wage?  Who and how is that determined?

Why not? What's wrong with that? What does it matter how you choose to support yourself, you don't have to be a CEO to be "successful"

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54 minutes ago, TheMoonisMyLantern said:

Why not? What's wrong with that? What does it matter how you choose to support yourself, you don't have to be a CEO to be "successful"

Nothing is wrong with it.   But if you plan on making a career out of something that doesn't take much skill or education, that almost anyone can do, you shouldn't expect to be paid more then that what that job worth to the employer.

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8 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Nothing is wrong with it.   But if you plan on making a career out of something that doesn't take much skill or education, that almost anyone can do, you shouldn't expect to be paid more then that what that job worth to the employer.

What is the job worth to the society and the economy? We call many of these low wage earners "essential" workers, don't we?

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2 hours ago, caliotter3 said:

Long Beach CA just passed an ordinance raising pay for grocery store workers, so as of April 17, Kroger is closing two stores permanently.  The stores were already under performing as many grocery stores operate at a loss anyway, and Kroger was already paying increased wages for Corona virus "heroes".  Preemptive move.  An acceptable wage is a wage that is more than nothing.

The minimum wage is $14-something in.Long Beach.  The recent ordinance was for $4 more per hour.  don't remember what they called it exactly,  but it was "covid hazard pay".

Now, those employees will be out of jobs.

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"Historically, researchers have used variations in state minimum wage laws to analyze the impact of minimum wage on employment. Generally, disagreements exist among researchers on their findings. While some researchers report little to no effect of minimum wage on employment, others report significant negative impacts. This is also true among studies that summarise studies detailing the effect of the minimum wage.

However, according to the authors of a new  NBER paper, this lack of consensus is largely due to studies “discarding” or “ignoring” most of the evidence on the negative effect of the minimum wage, and not about actual effects. The authors, David Neumark and Peter Shirley, who utilize preferred estimates instead of reported estimates, instead, find that most evidence largely supports a negative relationship between minimum wage and employment."

https://www.americanexperiment.org/2021/01/the-evidence-on-the-effects-of-minimum-wage/

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26 minutes ago, Beerman said:

"Historically, researchers have used variations in state minimum wage laws to analyze the impact of minimum wage on employment. Generally, disagreements exist among researchers on their findings. While some researchers report little to no effect of minimum wage on employment, others report significant negative impacts. This is also true among studies that summarise studies detailing the effect of the minimum wage.

However, according to the authors of a new  NBER paper, this lack of consensus is largely due to studies “discarding” or “ignoring” most of the evidence on the negative effect of the minimum wage, and not about actual effects. The authors, David Neumark and Peter Shirley, who utilize preferred estimates instead of reported estimates, instead, find that most evidence largely supports a negative relationship between minimum wage and employment."

https://www.americanexperiment.org/2021/01/the-evidence-on-the-effects-of-minimum-wage/

Gosh, that's not a surprising statement from that right wing Minnesota think tank that is semi famous for the unacceptable comments of leadership and precision dancing to the Koch family play list. 

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19 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Gosh, that's not a surprising statement from that right wing Minnesota think tank that is semi famous for the unacceptable comments of leadership and precision dancing to the Koch family play list. 

The article is referencing a paper from the NBER.

"Hundreds of the nation's leading scholars in economics and business are also NBER researchers who focus on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. Twelve of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in Economics have been researchers at the bureau."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nber.asp

It's a shame you arent willing to have a productive discussion with someone who has a different perspective.  You seem only interested in bashing my posts based on your perceived bias of myself and many of the sources I use.  

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Beerman said:

The article is referencing a paper from the NBER.

"Hundreds of the nation's leading scholars in economics and business are also NBER researchers who focus on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. Twelve of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in Economics have been researchers at the bureau."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nber.asp

It's a shame you arent willing to have a productive discussion with someone who has a different perspective.  You seem only interested in bashing my posts based on your perceived bias of myself and many of the sources I use.  

 

 

It's not my fault that the sources you provide for us to read are biased and known for inaccuracies. 

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