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Stonehedge in reply to @Oliver Schick

Is that to $15/hour? I suspect that since the demand has been around for so long, that policy's already behind the times. Better than nothing, but the key is always to catch up with the times.

You might be saddened to hear that the current Federal minimum wage is about $7ph!

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Aroogah in reply to @Stonehedge

$7.25 per hour.

For context, my first summer job in 1988 was at a supermarket for $5 per hour when the minimum wage was $3.35. The CPI has roughly doubled between 1988 and 2020 so the increase is roughly commensurate.

The average earnings for all employees in the US was around $11.40 per hour in 2020

Still too low.

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Stonehedge in reply to @Aroogah

That is grim.
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damskodonny in reply to @Aroogah

Bloody hell. And to think people people get very few days off (at least that's what I heard).

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