“I worked for 50 cents and hour minimum wage in 1971.”
Min wage was 1.45 in 1970= about $10 hr today.
IN 1980 I was offered a job in a warehouse at $7hr -that is about $20hr today Job also had 100% paid health insurance, dental, disbility and a 100% paid employer pension plan.
1/2 the country today is living on subsistence wages and no benfits. No wonder they are voting in socialism.
Wages have been artificially kept down for 30 + years. Something is going break and that break is people voting for Sanders socialism.
That was the Federal minimum wage, and did not apply to states, and definitely not to private sector jobs like restaurants.
It applied to Federal jobs and employers for government and military contracts.
We had a state minimum, and when it went to 65 cents an hour I thought I was in heaven! Of course all I bought were 45 rpm records and junk foods and cigs, illegally of course!
How exactly does that happen? Lots of people work low wage and then go get a better job. Is somebody stopping them from doing that?