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Rolling_Beardo t1_j34oe40 wrote

Reply to comment by vexingsilence in Love Free or Die - but get a second job. by oldhead

That’s terrible logic. Someone making $7.50 or $8 an hour isn’t making minimum wage but would still be struggling to survive working 40 hrs a week. How do you not see that as a problem?

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vexingsilence t1_j34rwp1 wrote

Scroll up to the document I linked. Even the lowest job category is averaging above $15/hr.

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Rolling_Beardo t1_j34ti5b wrote

I saw several jobs on those charts lower than $15 some between $8-10. There is entire chart of lowest wages which are all below $15, and those are averages which means people are making less than that as well.

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vexingsilence t1_j34uf19 wrote

Average of the bottom ten job categories bottoms out at $11.59 and the number of people employed at those lowest categories is practically nil. There isn't a problem for the state to solve here.

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