The fight for $15 movement started 13 years ago. $15 in 2012 money is equal to over $20 in 2025 money. It's taking the most progressive senator we've got to even suggest a pittance that is below what we've been asking for for over a decade.
And it is $17 in 2030.
Here from Europe, let me recommend one thing we do well: we link our equivalent of social security to the average wage growth, not to inflation.
This ensures that all voters benefit from wage growth. And thus all voters demand the same thing from the politicians.
Makes too much sense.
Sensible policies are Unamerican, judging by what has been passed by Congress in the last 20 years.
The problem with that happening in the US is there has been no wage growth, only retraction. Between inflation and wage inequality our purchasing power is nearly half what it was 25 years ago.
That's the point. Your problem is that a lot of voters aren't affected by wage growth. So politicians don't feel the pressure to enact wage growth.
All those senior people will actually vote for the guy who keeps wage growth in check.
we can't even get it to 15, what do you think are chances of doing that are lol
NO!! Not a number! Tie it to inflation, as a proportion!! Picking a specific number is what got us in this mess in the first place
If you look at the timeline in the article, post-2030 the act states that it would be indexed.
That would have made a much better headline
It’ll need to be $400 by 2030 to keep up with Trumpflation.
It already realistically needs to be between 25-30 an hr to even be considered a living wage.
Too bad too many don't consider minimum wage as something that should be a living wage
Yea, those people should be ~~re-~~ educated.
By 2030, $17 will be the equivalent of $5/hr. Can we just skip the bullshit and tie minimum wage to 2xSGA@40hr/wk? Right now that'd be about $18.70
Democrats:
"Yeah we could have helped the people who voted us in, but fuck that, I love Republican policies, they make my bank account look so much nicer when the lobbyists pay us both."
I assume that's her personal mantra. Fucking backstabber.
This remains democrats' last word on the minimum wage.
They only mention livable wages when they are not in a position to do anything about it.
We need $25 now, not $17 in 5 years. Bernie has become a fucking joke and a shadow of who he used to be
Amazing how every time they're powerless they wanna raise the minimum wage (to what we asked in 2012), legalize weed, codify Roe v. Wade, and this time stop Trump.
If they get a hold of Congress who much do you think they'll go for it? Assuming we have elections again.
They only mention livable wages when they are not in a position to do anything about it.
In fairness, this was just as unlikely to pass under democrats.
Or how about just no wages? Kick out the capitalists stealing the profits and divide that amongst the workers.
Abolish the wage system.
US dollar is valueless pay us in euros.
Sweet. $17/hr * 40 = $680 a week * 4 = $2720 a month * 52 = $32640 all before tax. Still not enough to live on.
Yeah, the “$15 an hour” debate has been going on for so long that the number has realistically increased to ~$23 per hour. And if a $23/hr minimum wage makes you balk, maybe you should consider how little you’re being paid for the job you currently do.
Jesus fucking Christ why didn't you do this back when the Democrats were in power Bernie? Stop fucking virtue signaling. You could have proposed this 4 years ago and it would have had a good chance of actually passing. And that's exactly why you waited until now, isn't it?
It saddens me that Bernie is the least broken politician we have, and he still sucks.
Is this a joke? He's literally been doing this shit for like 60 fucking years my dude
I'm not even an American and don't follow Sanders, but with a quick search I found news articles from 4 years ago with Sanders proposing to increase minimum wage to $15 https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/sanders-top-democrats-introduce-bill-raising-minimum-wage-to-15/
Is this a joke...?
Not fast enough not soon enough.
Ohhhh good job Bernie! I'm sure Johnson will get RIGHT on it! The House you lost will surely vote for that. And the Senate you lost will surely confirm it. And president Musk will absolutely sign it!
He could just as well introduce one to raise it to $17000 and a car as bonus.
He knows it has no chance so that's why he does it.
The sheepdog is virtue signaling again pretending to be progressive.
Guy has been pretending to be progressive for like 60 years. Thats some dedication.
Or could it be that you have built a system where change isn’t really an option.
Even terrorist organizations have higher minimum wage than the USA.
Fuck that you centrist. Abolish the wage system.
...what would that even look like?
Abolition of for profit companies. Worker owned collectives that split all of the profits from the labour between the workers who produced the profit, as the workers vote to decide how to spend it.
Anarcho Syndicalism.
Here's what the Vancouver IWW has to say about abolishing the wage system: https://www.vancouveriww.org/mean-by-abolition-wage-system/
Well some of those people will surely be brown and poor, so no way R is going to go for this.
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