cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/916523
Sen. Bernie Sanders is once again calling for a higher federal minimum wage. The current rate has been $7.25 since 2009.
How many democrats? Bernie’s rad, but very few of them actually work for people and I have a hard time believing anything will come of this.
Corporate interests, but with a rainbow paint job, is what most of them represent. Although, I do prefer the rainbow paint job to the authoritarian one the republicans use.
29 senators and 150 members of the house
19 Democrat Senators oppose this? Nearly half of the “left-leaning” party opposes something THIS modest!?
Although not support has the same outcome, ut is not the same thing as oppose. They might not be in favor of it enough right now but willing to vote for it when the time comes.
Not enough to get past the filibuster they won’t let go of for whatever bullhlshit reason though.
What? My pandering politicians didn’t actually put their money where their mouth is?!? Gasp!
Oh wow. That’s way more than I thought there’d be. Why isn’t that in the article?
I’m still disappointed it won’t pass though.
It is in the article, it’s in the second paragraph
Oh! Must have read too fast.
(Assuming numbers from parent comment are correct) To put another way: about 60% of Democrats in the Senate and 70% of them in the house.
These account for 29% and 34% of the total House and Senate votes respectively.
its from the article, I didn’t even read it I just skimmed it…
What kills me is that I did more research verifying the actual numbers of Democrats and total number of people in the houses of Congress than it would have taken to read the article.
Yet, I did not read the article.
Although, I do prefer the rainbow paint job to the authoritarian one the republicans use.i don’t because it gives the worst of them, especially biden, a facade of progressiveness when their history is fully of nothing but opportunistic political plays to the people who can’t be arsed to do a 30 second google search; which is about 95% of people; and it inevitably leads to votes for them on fairly tale beliefs of what they stand for when nothing could be further from the truth.
Well, at least the democrats didn’t strip away abortion rights. Lesser of two evils and all that.
I started an entry level job in 2018 at $17 an hr. As much as that’s a big step forward, it’s still probably insufficient.
Yeah if it was 2015 this would make a huge difference but its past time for that to be decent.
Lets see the Dems actually accomplish something substantive. Don’t get me wrong… I hope they do. I just doubt they will.
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Our minimum wage is decided by people who have either never worked a minimum wage job or were working long enough ago when $7.25/hr was probably a decent factory wage (pre-1950s). They have no concept of what people actually need to live on, or just don’t care.
Doesn’t this also raise social Security and disability?
Raise the minimum wage, corporations raise the cost of goods and services by the same amount + 15-20%. This will forever be a losing battle unfortunately. The people put in place to “look out for us” sold us out for a pittance a long time ago.
The corporations do this anyway, without any minimum wage increase. You can’t make policy based on the fear that corpos will be greedy, because they always are.
Oh I wasn’t at all saying we shouldn’t raise minimum wage. We most certainly should. Minimum wage should not be where it was when I was in high school 30 years ago. I’m just saying it’s unfortunate that corporations are simply going to raise prices even more to counter it and increase their profits to boot. The worst part is the corporations can raise prices without any regulation where as it takes years to raise minimum wage.
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Then we might as well raise the minimum wage since the prices are going up anyway…
The problem isn’t government here, although they’re certainly not helping. The problem is shareholders. Infinite growth on a finite world is not possible and we’re all being bled dry to sustain year over year profit increases.
However, existing contacts like debts or rent cannot raise as rapidly. Also some goods, namely those appealing to folks earning more than this new minimum, are less likely to change.
