This is a difficult issue.

The people who are against raising the minimum wage to $15/hr I think believe that raising the mininum wage means giving more money to the employees. While "technically" it does give a higher dollar amount to employees, it doesn't give more purchasing power than what minimum wage has historically amounted to.


Everyone who has an opinion on this issue should go look at the chart that shows the value of $100 in 1913, compared to the years beyond. $100 in 1913 is around $3,000 today.

No American should be working a full-time job, 40+ hours a week, and unable to afford the absolute cheapest options of shelter/food.

Any American that is willing to spend 40 hours a week working for someone else, should in the very least be able to afford shelter and enough food to not suffer health consequences from malnutrition.


I live in Georgia, and the minimum wage here is 5.15 an hour. Its the lowest in the COUNTRY. It is so low, that the federal minimum wage of 7.25 actually overrides the states minimum wage.

Even Moe's , which is a fast food burrito place, pays their part time workers $11/hr.




To me, the actual dollar amount of minimum wage is irrelevant. What the government needs to do is determine what the cost of living is, and require a minimum wage of FULL TIME jobs to cover the BARE MINIMUM of living expenses.

If the business can't afford to pay its full-time employees enough to provide shelter/food for themselves, then perhaps the business just shouldn't exist.