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Democrats want to make the minimum wage $17 an hour and give nearly 28 million workers a raise (www.businessinsider.com)

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Sen. Bernie Sanders is once again calling for a higher federal minimum wage. The current rate has been $7.25 since 2009.

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[-] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A modest increase means never catching up with an actual liveable wage. If businesses can't survive paying a living wage then they deserve to go out of business.

With a UBI businesses should just pay whatever they want. At that point people would be able to hold out for decent pay instead of taking terrible wages just to survive.

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