Somebody tell them that $15 is not half enough. Raise Seattle’s minimum wage to $30/hour.
She’s an immigrant academic/politican who has never made a payroll in this country.
Great idea, but not radical enough!
$100/hr for everyone!
Maybe we should make sure that no one in Seattle makes less than anyone else in Seattle? So, no matter what job you have, you make the same hourly wage!
My first full-time job out of college in the early 00s netted me just over $15/hr with benefits. I was able to move out of my mother’s house and get a cheap apartment with a buddy of mine in a not-so-nice part of town. Granted, it was my first job, I was a college graduate, and less than 5 years later, I was making almost double that. It was a start.
The problem, as I see it, is that these welfare mommies and losers want to subsist on this pay including the buying of new cars, big screen TVs, eating dinner out at fancy restaurants every night... this is scraping-by money, this isn’t what any normal person would call a living wage, but I digress because I’m starting to sound like a liberal.
I’m surprised these idiots don’t tout the ‘Basic Income Guarantee’.
$50,000 @ year! so that one wage earner can provide a “living wage” for a family of 4. Wait ... that is $30 @ hr.