If you can't raise a family, or afford to live on $5.15 and hour, do you think it can be done on $7.25?

Question

If you use the reasoning of the pro-minimum wage increase crowd... it is to be assumed that $7.25 is enough. Do you think that the extra $2.10 will just be going for more cigs and booze?

Only teenagers and the recent retirees should be making minimum wage. If you are over 18 and still making minimum wage -- maybe there's something wrong with you.

Answer 1

there is single moms and females and other ppl ---who start to work at the age of 30 or older----it had nothing to do with age----if u started to work at 18 or 28

Answer 2

Very few are "living on minimum wage", that's the problem with raising it this much. Mostly 16 year olds and retirees work for those wages. This will cause a ripple effect in the job sector and could potentially push many more jobs overseas.

Answer 3

I agree that the teenagers just starting to work should be getting the minimum wages. The employees who have already established themselves in the work environment definately need more than the 7.25. They probably have a family to support and probably have no medical benefits either. More employers need to assess there employees and pay them accordingly for their dedication and time on the job.

Answer 4

where i live right now there isn't much in the way of professional jobs requiring college degrees and paying more than $25,000 a year. some areas have very depressed economies. not everyone can pick up and move somewhere else, however. i see many people working their as.se.s off 40+ hours a week to help put food on the table and pay rent for their families, and they still struggle to do so b/c their wage is so low. $2.10 makes a big difference to them...life is not perfect for everyone

Answer 5

Many good answers here, and yes this minimum wage will not help it will cause inflation only. What we need is more equality and more equity, but that is probably not going to happen in the near future. Can't blame it all on the politicians either. Poor people have to stand up and quit falling for junk like this.

Answer 6

Approximately 460,000 people are earning the minimum wage in the US. Approximately 11.5 million earn between 5.15/hr and 7.25/hr, so the increase will increase the number earning minimum wage dramatically.

Tradionally there has always been a spike in the cost of living following each increase so the danger is that now there will be more people, and not less, in that bottom rung of wage earners.

Right now the people earning the minimum are generally not suporting a family. After the increase there will be a sizable percentage of minimum wage earners with dependents.

Answer 7

Your question started off reasonable, but your premise fell apart like it usually does.

The point, isn't allowing them to raise a family on minimum wage, but making it a bit easier to do so!
looks good on paper, but like all governmnet officials, someone is excluding the tendency of human greed, to have the ability to evolve a situation, to make theory into a pipe-dream.

Just like your premise that something is wrong with you if you are still making minimumn wage after age 18. you do realize that temporary service agencies are gobbling up all the jobs, even professional ones, don't you? or do you have you usual blinders on??

you do realize, that men do leave women supporting children with very little skills besides housekeeping right??

Answer 8

Maybe theres something wrong with the employers who can grant 200 million dollar your fired packages but can't pay their employees a decent wage, upping theminium wage will reduce welfare benefits, and $80 a week for a single mom is a good thing

Answer 9

You can´t raise a family on anything less than $15 an hour.

Answer 10

You're right...it won' make a difference.

When wages go up, so does the price of goods and services. Then, those people making minimum wage will be poor again, and demand another raise in the minimum wage. Again, that will cause prices to go up.

It will continue and continue until the price of a burger at McDonald's will be $50.00 to cover the cost of employing people.

Then, burger flippers will be making as much as Doctors because it will be illegal for doctors to charge much for medical care.

I guess hard work and sacrifice don't mean anything to politicians...only votes.

Answer 11

The provider is not supposed to provide for the family on minimum wage. The 16 year old son of the family is supposed to make minimum wage.

This is America. If you want to be someone then you are supposed to work hard and be compensated for it. We are beginning to walk a fine line with communism..