Bernie Sanders is right about this, but he just has the wrong formula for reaching that point.
Don’t try to raise the minimum wage, but stop flooding the US with legal and illegal immigrants which reduces the wages of almost all Americans. And stop making stupid trade deals that are guaranteed to move more US jobs to cheap labor nations and then increase the number of Americans on government poverty programs.
Do that and supply and demand will set pay at reasonable levels.
Your ideas are fine, but wont help at all if we don’t do something about the fact that we pay out over half our money to some kind of tax. If we don’t reign in Fed, State, and Local spending, nothing is going to get people out of poverty.
Sanctioned thievery.
Some of the hardcore Mexican nationalists and cultural Marxists say Bernie is too tough on immigration —
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/politics/bernie-sanders-immigration-reform-2016/index.html