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TexasBushwhacker

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21. I don't disagree

Reply to erronis (Reply #20)

Sat Jan 16, 2021, 08:51 PM

Jan 2021

My niece works for Home Depot for $10 an hour. She lives in the cheapest apartment in her area which is $685 a month. She squeaks by - barely. The store manager has already informed everyone there will be no raises this year because everyone already got a $1 an hour raise last year as COVID "hazard pay".

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Mary Trump: Why the hell do some of us have a problem with people being paid a living wage... [View all] demmiblue Jan 2021 OP

Trump's base would like no wages at all malaise Jan 2021 #1

Yeah, but most of the base would be tenant farmers beholden to the company store. erronis Jan 2021 #10

They are too stupid to realize that. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2021 #12

True malaise Jan 2021 #14

During reconstruction, poor people -- whites and ex slaves -- bonded together. However, the powers iluvtennis Jan 2021 #23

Well said malaise Jan 2021 #25

Agre, we need to unite, but before that can be done we need the other iluvtennis Jan 2021 #29

Way more than that malaise Jan 2021 #30

Well said +++ agree. nt iluvtennis Jan 2021 #34

K&R Blue Owl Jan 2021 #2

Because it is not plantation mentality! SheltieLover Jan 2021 #3

A good question as an economist (degrees), I've always wondered why pay such low wages... SWBTATTReg Jan 2021 #4

Greed. Pure and simple greed. Tommymac Jan 2021 #6

When Henry Ford decided to pay his workers PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2021 #17

Minimum wage was started to improve the life of working lunatica Jan 2021 #22

Too bad that ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2021 #24

Ford is manufacturing drmeow Jan 2021 #26

this is the root of all the disaffection - malaise Jan 2021 #31

How did this amazing woman come out of the same family as the rest of the smirkymonkey Jan 2021 #5

Apparently the smarts and humanity went to her father. The greed and hatred to Fred/Donald. erronis Jan 2021 #11

Agree 100% nt spooky3 Jan 2021 #18

I went to the grocery store today MontanaMama Jan 2021 #7

Awful elleng Jan 2021 #15

THAT puts things in perspective... AmyStrange Jan 2021 #28

Yes. And, you can go to McDonald's MontanaMama Jan 2021 #32

That's a really good point. REALLY good. calimary Jan 2021 #33

K&R ck4829 Jan 2021 #8

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2021 #9

I think her father was treated worse becsuse he was not like them JI7 Jan 2021 #13

Keep in mind, the companies that pay sub-living wages TexasBushwhacker Jan 2021 #16

I work with many that get some form of gov't help - it ain't anywhere near enough erronis Jan 2021 #20

I don't disagree TexasBushwhacker Jan 2021 #21

republican party monkeyman1 Jan 2021 #19

A higher minimum wage will keep more money local, and... AmyStrange Jan 2021 #27