• MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      And $7.50 is a pointless figure to use as representative of minimum wage. When established, the minimum wage was equivalent to $26 today, and most states had higher minimums even before they went up to $15.

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        11 months ago

        I think we should tie the minimum wage to local (probably generally county/parish) COL, updated biannually.

        But the minimum wage currently shapes a miniscule amount of people’s bargaining power.