WHAT YOU’RE SAYING
Here’s what readers had to say about the last debate: Will Biden win the fight for a $15 minimum wage?
Cheryl, 53, from Michigan: “I would like to put forth that the 900,000 people an increased minimum wage would lift out of poverty will no longer be required to work three jobs to make ends meet. The 1.4 million jobs to be possibly lost? Those will be the second and third jobs that minimum-wage workers are currently working.”
Joel, 71, from New Jersey: “A better solution is to abolish any wage rules and to set a minimum guaranteed income for poor households or individuals, a concept that is gaining traction even in libertarian and conservative circles. This puts tax dollars to work exactly where they are intended and needed, instead of playing experiments in supply/demand interactions (which are distributed throughout the economy in countless micro-transactions and are not understood in detail by any single analyst or committee).”
The New York Times
Me: Working with a $7.50 minimum wage is ridiculous, even doubling it to $15 is still not enough, it should be $25 an hour with increases for good workers to keep them from moving on and an increase every year, depending on how the economy has increased, to keep ahead of wage income vs costs fluctuate.
