Quote:It all has the same effect just on different scales. I used 60k a year to drive that point home. Raising the minimum wage to 21k a year doesn't change the situation for people on minimum wage, at that level of pay you're either a dependent of someone else or you need welfare to survive. Making the pay floor 5k more a year isn't changing any of that. The people on minimum wage have to figure out a way to increase their income that's simple economics, the reality is any job paying minimum wage was never designed to be a living wage.

 

Why is $7.75 an hour a gross injustice of this world and $10.10 a practical living wage? Because $10.10 sounds good? You think someone can support a family on $10.10 without help?