Quote:That's a reasonable argument I suppose. I still don't agree with the idea of profits raising but wages not following at all. I think cost of living increases to the point that even those jobs need to pay more. 

 

I personally know a couple skilled laborers (dry wallers) that cant support their families without working a slew of extra hours. No they don't work for themselves. They have no savings and live check to check as they go job to job. It just doesn't sit right with me when I see people working 40+ hours a week and forced to live pay check to pay check while their employers make obscene profits that increase year to year without fail. 

 

The idea that there are jobs that are meant to be low-wage is just plain wrong.

 

The problem is our nation's regulatory environment heavily favors big business through labor and trade policies.

 

Get rid of 'right to work' status for states and implement good trade reform and then workers will be able to push wages back to livable levels.

 

In absence of that at least indexing the minimum wage to the poverty level and inflation would help a lot.

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