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Hundreds of fast food workers are striking nationwide Tuesday, joining other workers in pressing for a more livable wage. But while some say $15 is a minimum needed to survive, some business owners say dishing out more pay would leave them struggling to keep their doors open.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fast-food-workers-strike-again-nationwide-for-15-an-hour
In New York City, rallies are being held in Harlem, the Financial District and Brooklyn in support of efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, reports CBS New York.
In Los Angeles, the local protests are organized by Service Employees International Union, and include fast-food, home-care and child-care workers, along with other "underpaid" employees, reports CBS Los Angeles.
"Is this the America we believe in? When someone works all day long and they still can't get by," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during an early-morning rally in Downtown Brooklyn. "Does anyone believe that it's easy to get by in New York City on less than $15 an hour?"
Critics say a $15 minimum wage would obliterate opportunity and usher in higher taxes, but de Blasio said the opposite is true -- with more money to spend, low wage workers contribute more to the economy.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:20PM
then it builds a ghetto of unwanted, unusable people who are left to live however they want (and one doesn't need to think for more than 30 seconds to imagine how it will end up; hint: you'd need a wall.)
Its a racial / cultural thing. You give everyone retirement at 65 and they in general don't turn too deviant. Or you've basically described lower than tenure level academia, they have occasional issues but nothing too bad. This is also basically a bad K-12 school district, nothing too awful happens there, and if you take away mandatory physical proximity and mandatory insane guards (aka teachers) and insane guard management, K12 education isn't that bad of an experience.
One argument I've always heard about social security style basic income and Medicare style socialized medicine is its not rocket surgery to just lower the minimum application age by two years for every calendar year or five years or however fast or slow you need it culturally and budgetar-ily.
Long into the future, plus or minus civilization collapse, we're still going to have both medicare and social security and endless media battles about how we need or don't need socialized medicine and basic income. Of course the general population need not be told that in the old days you qualified for SS at 67 instead of when you got your high school diploma, or that you had to be 65 to get medicare in the old days and now you get it the day you roll off your parents income tax statement as a dependent.