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Democrats Should Constantly Talk About a Minimum Wage Hike (jacobin.com)

submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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An obvious way to win the support of the working class is to support some actual pro-worker policies. An obvious starting point: raising the minimum wage, and well above $15 an hour.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

$20-22.00/hr is the minimum a human needs to be able to live in the US, full time employment.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago

Too bad the only people that matter are corporations.