NO! - The GOP & the greedy top 1% would rather move jobs overseas than pay higher wages.
74%
YES! - Raising the floor for the poorest US citizens would begin to improve our economy.
26%
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Simply put... it must be raised.
Fortuately, many states have higher minimum wage laws (such as here in CA), but the Federal minimum wage is something that has been fought over for years. And now that corporations are "people", they will be able to stomp on any attempts to raise it.
We will certainly create a living wage if we are going to experience the Great Turning rather than the Great Remorse. Lets remind our legislators of this fact.
Yes, I believe it will be raised, but not today.
Even the outsource countries are beginning to ask for better wages and conditions.
The worst thing about minimum wage is that it's often min. hour, min. days and min. benefits. After the govt. takes their third, it's even less. The last 3.5 yrs, wages lave sank so low that there's no incentive to work anymore. I started college in January. 3.5 yrs ago, I was making $36 hr, $40K a yr for the carpenter's union in the 5 yr pre-Olympic construction boom in Vancouver. The quality of the jobs since-I worked for Wendy's and got sacked after 3 weeks, one day every 3 mos, I get called up to work for labour pimps and I quit a 40 hr/yr $10 hr job as a brand ambassador for superstore. I also worked 5 weeks in residential scab construction for $7 hr, technically against the law. I quit because all I could get for my back breaking labour was enough to eat without going to the soup kitchen. My boss was also a hoarder, it's hard to work for someone you respect less than yourself.