$7.25 an hour is not a living wage

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You're not allowed to work in Chicago for $7.25 a hour. Illinois minimum wage was either $9.50 or $10.50.
 
Hell, you can't even support yourself in my area for anything less than $12.00 if you want to eat that is. That's saying you own everything and don't have a car payment. If you had a car payment, $12.00 an hour wouldn't even be enough to sustain yourself. Pathetic the minimum wage is so low.
 
We've got this issue going on in England at the moment. They are saying the government should scrap the minimum wage and just have the living wage :| wish they'll actually do it tho instead of talking about it.
 
Wages are usually set to the value of the work involved. Some of the variables are skill or knowledge required, arduousness of the work, scarcity of available labor, and markets that can sustain wages.

Unless you believe from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs.
 
Oh yes, that's pathetic and SSDI pay more than minimum wage.
 
Foxrac said:
Oh yes, that's pathetic and SSDI pay more than minimum wage.
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That's not true. The last time I recall that SSDI pay pretty low than minimum wage. It was about $400 per month and I was allow to made, no more than $1,000 per month. Screw them, I resign SSDI and focus work on 48 hrs per week (2 jobs) while full-time student. I ace everything and grad. I prove as deaf that I can doing well as hearing instead think that focus on study would improve.

If anyone is more than just being deaf, that's totally understandable. But just deaf with healthy arm/leg motion? **** you.
 
PowerON said:
That's not true. The last time I recall that SSDI pay pretty low than minimum wage. It was about $400 per month and I was allow to made, no more than $1,000 per month. Screw them, I resign SSDI and focus work on 48 hrs per week (2 jobs) while full-time student. I ace everything and grad. I prove as deaf that I can doing well as hearing instead think that focus on study would improve.

If anyone is more than just being deaf, that's totally understandable. But just deaf with healthy arm/leg motion? **** you.
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I receive SSDI more than minimum wage.

It sounds like you only received SSI, SSI and SSDI are not same, also SSDI has no resource limit and some of them receive more than $1,000 per month.
 
http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm

Still low. The State of Washington has the highest MW. Any state MW lower than federal MW is not acceptable.

Federal minimum wage law supersedes state minimum wage laws where the federal minimum wage is greater than the state minimum wage. In those states where the state minimum wage is greater than the federal minimum wage, the state minimum wage prevails.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/business/10-minimum-wage-proposal-has-obamas-backing.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...icans-views-on-the-minimum-wage.html?src=recg
 
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BBC News - US fast-food workers staging nationwide strike

They want $15/hr. Will it happen?

A report released in October by the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center and the University of Illinois found that 52% of families of fast food workers receive some form of public assistance. The report estimated that this aid carries a $7 billion annual price tag for taxpayers.
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See, those greed corporations make us (taxpayers) pay the poor workers the difference.
 
I can understand $15 a hour for big city locations like NYC where the cost of living is extremely expensive. But for small towns $15 is almost too much.

IMO I think the pay should depend on the location and the cost. Since fast food is basic labor I think the pay ought to be just enough to live in a 1 bedroom apartment and own a basic used car.
 
Both of my parents make this much per hour and their employers keep their hours down to part-time only. I make more per hour than them, but my hours are limited as a work-study to 10 hours a week.

My brother doesn't even get minimum wage since he works at a place that employs people with disability, so he works all day and has no pay to show for it, minimum wage would be a huge increase in pay for him.
 
A Nihilist said:
I can understand $15 a hour for big city locations like NYC where the cost of living is extremely expensive. But for small towns $15 is almost too much.

IMO I think the pay should depend on the location and the cost. Since fast food is basic labor I think the pay ought to be just enough to live in a 1 bedroom apartment and own a basic used car.
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I remember that Australia government requires fast food restaurants to pay employees $15/hr. I posted the link in one of the old threads.
 
PowerON said:
That's not true. The last time I recall that SSDI pay pretty low than minimum wage. It was about $400 per month and I was allow to made, no more than $1,000 per month. Screw them, I resign SSDI and focus work on 48 hrs per week (2 jobs) while full-time student. I ace everything and grad. I prove as deaf that I can doing well as hearing instead think that focus on study would improve.

If anyone is more than just being deaf, that's totally understandable. But just deaf with healthy arm/leg motion? **** you.
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You must confused between SSI and SSDI.
 
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