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Washington state has the highest minimum wage in the nation at $9.32. Can the state’s low-wage workers can meet their basic needs without assistance? Economics correspondent Paul Solman …
Washington state has the highest minimum wage in the nation at $9.32. Can the state’s low-wage workers can meet their basic needs without assistance? Economics correspondent Paul Solman …
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For the black woman: its your fault. Criminal record of shoplifting, single
mother of 2 and a high school dropout? You deserve the life you have. Keep
flipping burgers. No one deserves to pick up your slack.
For the bald guy: its your fault. You could use the money you spent on the
playstation 3, playstation 4, all those games/movies and plasma TV, along
with the time you waste on that to learn skills to get a higher paying job.
I don’t feel bad for you at all. Keep holding that sign outside and stop
trying to slack on the job.
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Minimum wage isn’t meant to be livable. Its not called livable wage, that
would be around $25 hourly for these families as mentioned. The reason
people get payed so little is because they don’t much work. If someone at
mcdonalds got more than one simple task, he might as well get payed more.
But still, McDonalds or a janitor or any of these other minimum wage jobs
aren’t mean to be for a family to survive on
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Fast food jobs are meant for teenagers to gain experience, not for adults
to work there long term, much less supporting a family. Learning a trade or
college ed is a best bet to get out of these minimum wage jobs. $15 an hour
is unrealistic. I graduated from a 4-year college with high GPA, have been
working for two years. And I don’t get to earn $15 an hour. I agree fast
food workers should still earn a sustainable wage, but $15 per hour is
unreal.
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$15.00 a hour is way too much. What about assembly line
workers, janitors and welders? They work WAY harder than these people who
work at fast foods and make little money.
Minimum wage jobs is not a career. I guess I’m different than most people.
I have aspirations and goals in my life…
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Joshua says “its hard for him to get by”, but funny how many video games he
has. He slacked in school, he had a kid without a stable income. It’s his
fault. Unfair for taxpayers that their hard-earned money is going to people
like this. If you think he’s hard-working I mean look at how dirty their
house is, even if you’re poor you can still keep you house clean
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You can live pretty decently off minimum wage in a lot of cities, its the
states that are expensive to live in that people have problems. The main
problem is that minimum wage is simply not high enough in these expensive
to live in states like California, New York, Florida or larger cities.
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Minimum wage is not a wage at all. Wage is based on the value produced by
the employee, anything above that is not wage it is subsidy. So, much of
minimum wage is just welfare. A better idea: get a skill that you
can sell on the free market for the money that you want to make. Forcing
employers to pay more for the same work takes money away from the business
owners, and may put businesses out of work.
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In Australia the Minimum wage is $16.26 an hour. Unemployment is lower than
what it is in the USA. America the land of the working poor.
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Live with in your means
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What is it like to live on minimum wage? You learn how to live with more
people in a home than it can legally support. You learn how to make $10-$20
a week stretch to feed you. You learn how to efficiently apply to hundreds
of places because you are always trying to find something that actually
pays enough to live on. You learn to live with the cold of winter and the
heat of summer because you cannot afford to run your heating or air
conditioning. You learn to do without “fancy things” such as a new computer
or iphone or android phone. You learn the world is full of cruel and
heartless people who are clueless about the suffering of the poor. You
learn that the only way you will get help from the government is if you
unemployed, homeless, pregnant, have kids, or making so little money you
can’t even afford rent. Then maybe you will get government help. Don’t
expect much from churches either unless you are willing to go to that
church every service and kiss a lot of rear. You see so many opportunities
that are just out of reach as well. Maybe you don’t have enough experience.
Maybe they are too far away for your piece of crap car to make it. Maybe
you cannot afford the gas. Maybe there are too many others applying who
have a slight edge or better connections. Maybe you end up making too many
mistakes at your job because you are too tired from working your second job
or too tired from being kept up by all the people you have to live with in
order to have a roof over your head on your pathetic income. Life on
minimum wage is hell if you have no kids.
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So, let me get this straight. This woman made the SOLE choice to bring
children into the world, but the rest of us have to pay her money to
feed HER children?
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For the lady with the shoplifting charges come on what kind of life does a
criminal expect. Did you expect society would elect you head of the
chamber of commerce after stealing from stores. Oh because everyone else
had the $300 tennis shoes, $1000.00 watches and assorted bling when you
were a kid you have the right to steal. So being a criminal, a drop out
and likely dope addicts should have no consequences. Having two children
you can’t afford when a $3.00 investment in condoms can remove the huge
expense of children from a life on minimum wage.
The real question is can a single person live on minimum wage because
children are a choice. A wife is a choice. If you and your wife both make
minimum wage to the bald guy can you survive? If so wait to have children
till you can afford them sir then have only the kids you can afford. You
call yourself a man and you need the state to take care of your spawn. To
the black lady you are a criminal my dear you are darn lucky McDonalds
risked hiring you in the first place. you should thank your lucky stars
you have that job rather than whining about minimum wage.
For both folks they should work on improving their lives with education and
working to find better jobs once educated. I feel minimum wages should be
raised from the federal level but in Washington State they are already
above the federal level and still complaining come on what do you want a
mansion. As for the plasma TV and the PS3\4 whatever the man has to have
some joy in life. I know myself if I could only have two luxuries they
would be a DVD player and the biggest TV I could afford. As for the TV
being a plasma come on try to find a tube TV anywhere now good luck. Used
to be plasma TV meant big bucks nowadays a big screen TV is not the huge
luxury it used to be, I mean if dude had a 55 inch screen TV then yeah
he’s living large on little but he had a dinky little plasma screen he is
living well within his means.
Come on look at bald dudes house it was sparse a few things stacked up no
real furniture to speak of. the video game consoles were not in a huge
entertainment center they were sprawled on the floor. I think both of
these people were making due with what the bad decisions in life left
them. This story would have been more effective if two people who did not
do drugs, drop out orbecome criminals had to suffer on minimum wage. These
two were stereotypical mininum wage charactures drop outs and criminal
losers. Lets see a high school graduate who never did drugs, never
commited crimes, never had babies they could not afford who also work and
must live on minimum wage. If you did all the right things and still can’t
live on minimum wage as a single adult or a married couple without kids
then minimum wage must be raised. Minimum wage was not meant to be a
family wage. Minimum wage should allow one single individual to live a
very basic spartan life.
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This is the kind of shit Karl Marx mentions in his book. And this is why I
support communism. How can these huge companies just let these people
suffer? Some of these companies like Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, any
fast food joint or retail establishment makes more money than companies
like Microsoft and Apple and they pay their employees more than minimum
wage. These companies have more than enough money to pay their employees
more. At the end of the day, companies and banks rule everything and they
control us. Minimum wage is basically just legalized slavery. I saw a
documentary not to long ago called “Living on Tips” and they make around $3
an hour and this is completely legal by law. These massive companies can
pay $3 an hour to an employee and make up for anything else with tips that
the customer leaves behind. Customers don’t necessarily need to leave tips.
It’s wrong that customers are paying for their living.
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$15.00 an hour ? Ok. So we do this for the low end worker at McDonald’s .
We just raised the wage. Now we have the higher earner wanting more pay. So
now we have to pay that worker more because the other worker just got a
wage increase. This is just politics and always comes from the democrats.
The same democrats that tax the poor and hope you don’t notice. You know,
Cigarettes, Beer, the lottery, your cell phone. And for the single mother
of two I say make better choices. Go to college. I worked two jobs while I
went to college. No excuses.
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So she bought a cheap ass old ass car, only to put rims that are more
expensive than the car? That’s your typical black folk right there.
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This is crazy and mean. Why can’t we just recognize that a land base,
housing, and a healthy food supply are human rights and share them among
ourselves? Instead we permit hoarding by a few in some kind of stupid
Monopoly game as if we the People have no value unless we are paying
somebody else to exercise their own extreme self indulgence.
There is enough arable land in America for each one of us to have 2 acres.
Let’s take away all this desperation and misery by simply agreeing to share
what we already have. Then we will never NEED jobs, and government/tax
payer handouts; we will just comfortably LIVE.
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This video is outrageous. Is it a joke? The Black woman who dropped out
of High School, has two kids, and has three misdemeanor theft charges has
the nerve to complain about her situation. On top of that, purchases a
very old high mileage Infinity with expensive aftermarket Rims and tires
and a touch screen stereo. This woman is a victim of BAD DECISION MAKING
and nothing else. I started out making $7.25. It’s not easy and you have
to make sacrifices, to get by. People need to be responsible for their own
actions. She CHOSE to steal, she CHOSE to have unprotected sex, and she
CHOSE to buy an impractical vehicle. Live within your means, or change
them.
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If you make minimum wage, you shouldn’t have kids.
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Yeah, if mcdonalds had to pay their workers $15 an hour then you can expect
the $1 menu to become the $5 menu….
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These two should take a sales job. There are plenty sales jobs out there
that will take chances of people with minimal experience and only a HS
education. They could be raking in the big bucks instead of making a measly
minimum wage. There’s no greater feeling than having the freedom of being
your own boss and controlling your own destiny (i.e. money) you can make.
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If I made $9.19 an hour and getting 32 – 40 hours a week I would be living
well and wouldn’t have to work 2 jobs, 7 days a week.
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Slaves in the Old South Were who created the Wealth. The Slave owners were
the ones who were rich, from the work of the Slaves. In Today’s World, the
Minimum Wage Workers are the Wage Slaves that create the Wealth While The
Rich Men get richer from the work of Minimum Wage Slaves. Will Slavery
ever end in the United States
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$7.25 an hour? That would only be an agreeable source of income if you had
a time machine, and are able to teleport yourself into the 1950’s where the
minimum wage of today was accounted for into inflationary terms. In other
words, we are making a minimum wage accounted for inflation of 60 years
ago! Unbelievable! Account it for the inflation of today, and you have
yourself a much higher minimum wage! Raise the minimum wage slightly, and
we could quite possibly draw the working poor out of poverty, eliminate
government subsidiary programs, and recover from an ailing economy in a
timely manner. It’s unfortunate to call ourselves the richest, yet poorest
country on the planet.
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Glad to see no one in the comments knows basic history, the actual stats on
minimum wage workers, the real impact of a 20$ an hour wage or even basic
economics beyond Macro 101.