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Currently, the $8/hour minimum wage still leaves a single person working full time below the poverty line. Raising the min wage would help to address this legislated policy that keeps people in poverty. Many groups concerned about reducing poverty advocate for raising the minimum wage to $10/hour. Here is one way you can offer your support:
Sign the BCFed Petition to raise the minimum wage to $10
3 comments:
Does this really make sense to anyone. If it would help why not raise it to $25.00 an hour. Give everyone a higher wage. What will happen...I would guess we would have inflation as the prices of things rise as well. Use some basic math. I am one who would want to support the streams of justice but all I have seen on your site is basic parroting of various party lines without any thought or analysis to it. Ignore the party politics and bandwagon jumping and just help the poor. I haven't seem much on this blog that follows that line even though I understand you are doing good work on the front lines (but haven't checked it out myself) because I can't follow the logic of this blog.
$10 is a reasonable expectation while $25 is not. We want to help through actual progress, not theoretical imaginings.
Don't you think that the same people that will benefit from the raise are the ones that shop at places that hire $8 hour employees and therefore the prices will rise proportionately and therefore not really do any good.
Perhaps it might be better to see what's required to get people out of $8 hour jobs and help them move toward higher paying jobs. Changing just one parameter like the wage will not have a beneficial effect unless you force prices to stay the same which will not happen.
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