It is a really good time to address these issues and raise wages across the board because that results in important local economic activity..
If we got paid more, then we’d be able to afford to go to school..
“We’re asking for $15 because in order to support one person in a one bedroom apartment you need to make $14.88. We don’t make anywhere near that and we’re all on food stamps.”
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Raising the minimum wage isn’t about making a group of workers feel better
“They’re more productive than they ever have been and yet that productivity isn’t ending up helping them with their incomes it’s going into corporate profits.”
“we’re all on food stamps..”
“We’re asking for $15 because in order to support one person in a one bedroom apartment you need to make $14.88. We don’t make anywhere near that and we’re all on food stamps.”
“What profits?”
The fast food industry alone is projected to create 10 times more jobs than aerospace engineering, according to the institute.