b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 1 minute ago, Kal-El814 said: He has been every time he thought he could win the Dem primary ayylmao Banned for re-litigating 2016/2020 Dem primaries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Banned for re-litigating 2016/2020 Dem primaries It’s no less than I deserve. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I've said for a long time we just need to set it to go up by a certain amount automatically January 1st of every year. Just every year it goes up 5% or whatever, I'll leave it to smarter people than me to figure out the exact number that would be reasonable but that's the way it should be so that way every few years we don't have this massive fight because it suddenly needs to double to keep up. Even if we manage to get this done, well just be fighting for it to be $20 an hour in like 2030. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Apartment rent where i live is constantly going up. How are you supposed to afford $1,800 a month just for a studio apartment even on $15 a month? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 8 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Or realize that the threshold for applicability to the flsa is quite low and covers damn near every business out there so it's a needless and pointless point to make 51,000 Georgians is nothing to sneeze at. PolitiFact - Does Georgia have the lowest minimum wage in the country? WWW.POLITIFACT.COM Stacey Evans, a Democrat running to be Georgia’s next governor, claims workers are at an economic disadvantage in part b/> <meta name= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I made $3 and change an hour as a carhop / waiter who also earned tips... in 1996. The notion that anyone could be making just a couple more bucks an hour twenty-five years later is fucking lunacy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, Joe said: 51,000 Georgians is nothing to sneeze at. PolitiFact - Does Georgia have the lowest minimum wage in the country? WWW.POLITIFACT.COM Stacey Evans, a Democrat running to be Georgia’s next governor, claims workers are at an economic disadvantage in part b/> <meta name= That's 1% of the labor pool in Georgia. I rate the statement "damn near every business" as "True". They deserve to be paid a living wage, and there should be more than mere intuition to state that we need to phase an increase in the minimum wage. It wasn't long ago that the intuition regarding the minimum wage increase, any increase, hurting employment was taken as gospel. Actual data showed that this was not the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: That's 1% of the labor pool in Georgia. I rate the statement "damn near every business" as "True". They deserve to be paid a living wage, and there should be more than mere intuition to state that we need to phase an increase in the minimum wage. It wasn't long ago that the intuition regarding the minimum wage increase, any increase, hurting employment was taken as gospel. Actual data showed that this was not the case. 2.2% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 21 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: Apartment rent where i live is constantly going up. How are you supposed to afford $1,800 a month just for a studio apartment even on $15 a month? this is an issue of housing availability, not wages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 24 minutes ago, Joe said: 2.2% Georgia Economy at a Glance WWW.BLS.GOV 51/5100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 49 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: Apartment rent where i live is constantly going up. How are you supposed to afford $1,800 a month just for a studio apartment even on $15 a month? according to Republicans, the solution is not raising the minimum wage at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 7 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Georgia Economy at a Glance WWW.BLS.GOV 51/5100 The 51,000 number was over 4 years old and those are current numbers. It would be nice if it was halved in 4 years, but I sincerely doubt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 The labor cost increase for small businesses would surely be offset (by how much?) by the increase in new customers who can now afford to spend more money? Now time to find some data to back up this hypothesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, cusideabelincoln said: The labor cost increase for small businesses would surely be offset (by how much?) by the increase in new customers who can now afford to spend more money? Now time to find some data to back up this hypothesis. not all small businesses are of a retail nature. Many only do business commercially. Businesses that do business with other businesses. we’ll have to see, but I wouldn’t be opposed to some kind of small business payroll subsidy to help some small businesses get to the federal minimum, but pay the entire $7.50 difference. But also highly means tested. None chain McDonald’s location or some other such place should qualify. Not should a an employer qualify if like the owner is pulling a 7 figure salary, while saying he can’t afford to pay his employees above $8 an hour. I dunno just throwing some ideas out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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