Many people think minimum wage lowers their wage if they make near the proposed increase.
They aren’t necessarily wrong.
Everything goes up in price more than the minimum wage increase every time it happens because there are no laws to stop price increases like that.
Rent goes up. Any service jobs cost most. Restaurants.
So people already barely making more than minimum loose.
I’m all for minimum wage being a living wage. But it will never be a living wage unless price increases are controlled with min wage increase rollouts.
With hefty fines for violations.
Otherwise min wage increases is pure theatre at best and actually lowers income at worst
Sounds like they specifically put the questionnaire in a ballot that wasn’t for a very high-turnout election. Apparently if they waited to put this on a higher-turnout election the results could have gone differently.
Love how the reasoning for rejecting this measure is that the businesses will increase costs to make up for higher wages. So i guess the solution is to never raise wages? Lol?!? Notice how consumer costs have constantly gone up? Notice how the min wage hasn’t? Weird!!!
Not much clearer of an example of voting against urself, way to go oklahoma.
Do people just like being cucked by the rich or something? It’s gotta be some sort of fetish for Americans at this point.
If you’re not talking about voter suppression you’re doing conservatives’ work for them
e; “Oklahoma’s election laws inhibit voter participation, create more extreme candidates, experts say” (arc)
One of the more subtle things done for voter manipulation here in OK is putting the polling places in the lobbies of nursing homes.
You have to drive and find parking. But Gertrude, class of '65, can hobble out into the lobby and vote like Focks Noos told her to, and it only takes five minutes. And there are 200+ residents right behind her doing the same thing, at every nursing home that has a polling place in it on election day.
Education is a problem, yo. I see so many folks on this app run propaganda for the regime while simultaneously talking like they’re not about it. “Just following orders” is criminal but carrying water for an enemy ain’t too different.
She said that she hopes for higher turnout in November with Vice President Kamala Harris facing former President Donald Trump to become the next United States president.
Boy, do I have bad news for this nearly 2-year-old article…
I think it has to do more with brainwashing than voter suppression. I don’t believe they managed to suppress 90% of voters.
- Pretty sure the margin in this vote was a little less than 90%
- Saying “I believe other people have been brainwashed” without even making a gesture at evidence to support your own claim seems a bit ironic
What I meant is that vast majority of voters should support raising the minimum wage. Wealthy people that actually employ workers and pay them below proposed minimum wage should oppose it. The rest have no interest to vote against it. You would have to suppress shitload of voters to change the margins here and reject it. Hence, the majority voted against their interest.
And please, we don’t have to proof anymore that Americans have been brainwashed. It’s been more than obvious for about a decade now.
People with more money have more power. They indoctrinate the voters successfully. The voters are happy about the outcome, as they believe they have done something good, while they basically suffocate themselves.
This happens, is you have a fake democracy, where money decides who is going to win.
Because most voters aren’t making the minimum wage. So say the minimum wage is $10, but you’re making $16, and the min wage gets brought up by $5 to $15. The person making $16 an hour isn’t going to get a raise, or if they do, it won’t be a $5 raise. They’ll just be making $1 over minimum wage, only now everything in the state will adjust upwards in costs, because capitalism. Rent rates and used car prices will go up. Groceries will get a bit more. Places will charge more for child care.
If you weren’t making close to minimum wage, it hurts you more than it helps.
This is a perpetual problem. The fix is simple. Instead of trying to make low incomes higher for a short term amount of help; tax the fuck out of the top end. That will lessen the burden on everyone else, provide more money to help those in need, prevent the oligarchs from just trying to hoard their wealth and put it back out into their companies rather than paying more in taxes, etc.
In short, raising minimum wage is a dumb thing to focus on, when the real focus should be on lowering the top.
7.25 an hour is the national minimum? That’s shocking. It’s about 5 quid in UK money. Apprentices or under 18s get paid way more than that.
Many states have higher minimum wage. Here it’s $15/hr. That’s probably not enough for a high cost of living area but my teen just got a summer job for $18/hr, so employers are paying more
No one here in the states are actually paying the minimum wage. Most of the time, it’s at least $11-12 an hour depending on the restaurant.
Restaurant? You’re suggesting restaurants are paying people more when there’s a separate, even lower minimum wage for service employees expecting tips?
I meant fast food places my bad
F’ing bumpkins.
