Minimum wage should be $21.72 per hour.

[bhikkhu]

15. I'd settle for a living wage

I own a house and raise a family fine making less than $20 an hour, as skilled labor w/20 years experience...but that's in a fairly inexpensive corner of the country. Maybe it needs to be $20+ in some places, but it doesn't here.

I think it minimum wage should be enough that a person can afford a roof, and put food on the table. I think a person working full-time should make enough to have no need for food stamps and so forth.

My neighborhood is all pretty RW, so I hear no end to complaining about people on assistance, dependent and so forth. My usual response is to point out that the largest employer in town is Walmart, which is also the largest employer in the country, and it games the rules to the extent that it can pay workers dirt while directing them to government assistance for "the rest" of what they need to live on. Which is just a stupid way to run a country.