• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    In some places they did just get big pay raises for minimum wage workers. Too bad that was the previous amount needed and COVID/Greed inflation pushed the amount needed well above what they got raises for.

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      7 months ago

      COVID/Greed inflation pushed the amount needed well above what they got raises for.

      Did you read the article which had citations saying it’s the complete opposite of that?

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        7 months ago

        The opposite of what? I did read the article but if you want to reference it then quote it so we know what you’re talking about. The only relevant section I remember from the top of my head was something like, “pay raises resulted in higher wages even after taking inflation into account.”

        But that’s some really fun weasel wording. If I’m making 2 more dollars an hour in real terms, but I’m still 8 Dollars below affording a place to live it doesn’t really help me does it? We’ve been trying to get a 15 dollar minimum wage for over a decade. What’s the effective increase since then? What’s the new number we actually need? Where I live that’s 25 dollars an hour now. So getting 15 dollars finally isn’t helping.