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To: ChicagoConservative27

Federal Minimum wage 1976: $2.30

$2.60 in 1976 is worth 13.75 today.

Current Federal minimum age is $7.25 and has only 52% of the buying power of $2.60 minimum age from 1976.

There is a reason the top of the food chain keep getting fatter, and the lower end struggles even more.

Need to fix the minimum wage, adjust it to appropriate level, and then, just like Social Security, tie it to inflation and automatically increase it every year.

End this stupid invented political BS battle.


25 posted on 03/20/2023 9:23:18 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Agree


51 posted on 03/20/2023 2:30:09 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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