Probably something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage
Can 2 Parents and 2 Kids Live on Minimum Wage? According to New Report, Not Even Close
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Depends on where you live. But in my area, for one person with no children $14ish/hr with 2080hrs/YR (full time) is the estimated living wage.
Edit: MIT has a calculator also. http://livingwage.mit.edu
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So how much is q livable wage?
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I can agree with that for a single person.
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Ok so you raise Minimum wage to that number, so now people who were making that $ amount are now making minimum wage
explain how that's logical to do
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The increments are wild too, it basically doubles with a single parent single child household.
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Wouldn't those people get a pay increase and so on and so forth? Then everything else would go up in price.
Theres always someone who will work for minimum wage, big companies know this.
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Yeah having kids is expensive apparently,
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Now?
Why are we pretending the desire to make max profit by any means necessary is a "recent" thing?
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Because 2015 is the year of the "victim".
Because now they can live off of their wages.
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First time coming into this thread wondering why its 8 pages. I always read the thread title as, "If the you are poor, can you not be poor"
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This is a myth.
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I know, it's like you need higher wages to support them
The real truth is we don't know what will happen if MW is increased nationwide. But like you said times change. I think it's worth trying.
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Please elaborate, Im here to learn.
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That's essentially what some people believe. That anyone, regardless of circumstance can work there way out of poverty and be successful. They all just have to stop being lazy.
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Yeah man I don't remember what the figure was but it was crazy high for the amount of money you spend on average raising a kid from birth to age 18.I know, it's like you need higher wages to support them
The real truth is we don't know what will happen if MW is increased nationwide. But like you said times change. I think it's worth trying.
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Some people also think our government doesn't want people of color to succeed and will do anything to throw bumps in their way, for example inventing crack and spreading it to poor communities.
Neither type of people are correct.
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it takes hardwork and opportunity/luck/blessings. It happens for some, not all. So its not the rule.
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But wouldn't common sense tell you that if the wage goes up to a certain point where it affects profits, then companies would up prices? Or would the wage never get that high?
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You would think so, but having higher wages = more spending power. So even with a slight price increase, people have more money to spend and will do so.
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I thinK The system is designed to allow those who are already succeeding to continue to do so at the expense of those who aren't. I also believe that tons of policies that may not directly call out black people, directly effect them especially socio economic policies because black people in America are overwhelmingly poor. Kinda like how bars started issuing dress codes in the early 2000s. No baggy pants, no white tees, no timberland boots. They didn't say no black people allowed, but who do you think were effected most by those rules?
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Id like to see the breakdown in percent in terms of poverty and race.
Ive actually been kicked out of a bar before for my pants sagging
I can see where you're coming from but dress codes like that are probably more for making the club/bar "look" better in terms of how the public views the business and what type of crowd it wants to appeal to. Grown and sexy brings more money than young and dumb lol
I don't feel bad for someone who cant go to their favorite bar because the owner doesn't want baggy pants in there. Clubs/bars are private places, they can do what they want for the most part and you have plenty to choose from most places.
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