@inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world • 3 days agoSanders introduces bill to raise minimum wage to $17 by 2030, benefits nearly 22 million Americansvermontbiz.commessage-square204fedilinkarrow-up1671arrow-down114file-text
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minus-square@alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink61•3 days agoAnd it is $17 in 2030. Here from Europe, let me recommend one thing we do well: we link our equivalent of social security to the average wage growth, not to inflation. This ensures that all voters benefit from wage growth. And thus all voters demand the same thing from the politicians.
minus-square@TriflingToad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 days agowe can’t even get it to 15, what do you think are chances of doing that are lol
minus-square@alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink1•1 day agoI know, but these things tend to be all or nothing. Either the American workers don’t seize power and they continue to get exploited, or they seize power and then a lot will be possible.
minus-squareEugene V. Debs' GhostlinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 days agoSensible policies are Unamerican, judging by what has been passed by Congress in the last 20 years.
minus-square@ClassStruggle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 days agoThe problem with that happening in the US is there has been no wage growth, only retraction. Between inflation and wage inequality our purchasing power is nearly half what it was 25 years ago.
minus-square@alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink6•3 days agoThat’s the point. Your problem is that a lot of voters aren’t affected by wage growth. So politicians don’t feel the pressure to enact wage growth. All those senior people will actually vote for the guy who keeps wage growth in check.
And it is $17 in 2030.
Here from Europe, let me recommend one thing we do well: we link our equivalent of social security to the average wage growth, not to inflation.
This ensures that all voters benefit from wage growth. And thus all voters demand the same thing from the politicians.
we can’t even get it to 15, what do you think are chances of doing that are lol
I know, but these things tend to be all or nothing.
Either the American workers don’t seize power and they continue to get exploited, or they seize power and then a lot will be possible.
Makes too much sense.
Sensible policies are Unamerican, judging by what has been passed by Congress in the last 20 years.
The problem with that happening in the US is there has been no wage growth, only retraction. Between inflation and wage inequality our purchasing power is nearly half what it was 25 years ago.
That’s the point. Your problem is that a lot of voters aren’t affected by wage growth. So politicians don’t feel the pressure to enact wage growth.
All those senior people will actually vote for the guy who keeps wage growth in check.