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ramonaandus:
“ daisiesandsorrow:
“ imperfectimagining:
“ daisiesandsorrow:
“ whitehouse:
“ No one who works full-time live in poverty. It’s time to raise the minimum wage.
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It says a family for four would be in poverty off that one income. Why are...

daisiesandsorrow:
imperfectimagining:
daisiesandsorrow:
whitehouse:
No one who works full-time live in poverty. It’s time to raise the minimum wage.
It says a family for four would be in poverty off that one income. Why are you having kids on that one income? If anything, two adults could work and it would be more than enough. Raising minimum wage only leads to the prices of everything else raising, as it has done in the past. For instance a fast food company has to pay its employees more therefore it raises the prices of its food to compensate. If all business do this, then the cost of living goes up, and the cycle continues. Besides, minimum wage jobs are targeted at teenagers, who don’t need that much money as their parents cover most of the financial burdens. Getting People educated in a technical degree or college education degree is more important so you don’t have 50 year olds working at Taco Bell or Wal-Mart. Forcing businesses to pay a certain amount isn’t going to help in the long run.
^ You’re very single-minded. Degrees don’t solve everything. Having a skill in a position that pays well doesn’t solve everything. Sometimes the real world happens after you have children. Sometimes you’re put in a bad spot and a minimum wage job is the only option. People get laid off. Jobs go obsolete. When I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts, one of my coworkers was a forty-something year old woman with two children. She was suddenly left without a job at her age because the company she worked for went out of business. Dunkin’ was her last resort, and I respected her greatly for doing what she had to do to keep getting a little bit of money. Also, my mother was a medical transcriptionist. Because of new software (Dragon, mainly), her job, the one she worked at for 25+ years, is now completely obsolete. Since she’s been doing that pretty much her whole working life, she’s not got much experience to get anything other than a minimum wage job. I hate people like you who assume that every adult who work minimum wage jobs can just go out and get a well-paying career. Also, after working a piece of shit, minimum wage job, I know for a fact that the person who works at Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, etc., works a HELL of a lot harder than every single person that sits behind a desk all day. These people deserve better pay than what they’re getting, and as the post above yours said, NO ONE who works full time should have to live in poverty.
I did not say degrees solved everything. I think that education should be a higher focus for the government versus raising minimum wage, which has side effects on businesses, and will consequentially be a viscous cycle of raising it: businesses compensating, cost of living going up, minimum wage going up again, and so on. I know people who work minimum wage work hard- really hard, and I respect them greatly, but I feel that the government should focus on educating people and putting out jobs instead of controlling businesses. I know “life happens" and I know that sometimes people get laid off- my intent was not To insult the people working the jobs, but the focus of the government and lack of awareness of how things play out in the long run. That’s all I was saying.
The problem is that education is privatized and just like everything else in a capitalist society, a business. Schools don’t care if you graduate, they don’t care if you get a degree. The government doesn’t care if you graduate or get a degree. I am 21 years old and going to be in debt to my eye balls when I graduate college because of how expensive it is and the fact that the first two years I was in school I didn’t get enough in scholarships to cover everything and because I wasn’t 24, married or had a kid at that time I couldn’t get any federal assistance because I had to file my FAFSA under my parents. This school year coming up will be the first year despite me living on my own and paying my own bills since I was 18 that I have been able to file independently and get a grant, but I still have to take out loans because it is impossible to get scholarships as a junior in college.
And all this in hopes that I’ll be able to find a job in the career field I want with the degree I will have gone 20,000 dollars in debt for.
Just because you have a degree doesn’t mean you’re promised a good paying job.

Minimum Wage should be raised in my personal opinion, though. Because regardless if mw jobs were supposed to be starter jobs, the reality of it is that people do have to support themselves and their families on it in the economy we have today.