• overflowOP
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    12 years ago

    They want to have enough money to pay for their necessities and maybe even some left over for luxuries why is that so hard for you to comprehend. Look into why minimum wage was created or why anyone campaigns for it the purpose of minimum wage is to provide an amount that low income people can afford their daily needs not to give them more time off you can ask literally anyone why they want a minimum wage increase and they’ll tell you it’s that they can have more money to live a decent life and not more time off. You clearly didn’t read the part of the article where it stated because of the numerous amount of variables affecting employment there’s no sure way to accurately predict the effects of minimum wage but even in the best case scenario where there’s little to no change in the unemployment rate it still does a terrible job of it’s intended goal of poverty alleviation and that you could actually fix poverty with lowering taxes for low income earners and reducing red tape so that more businesses can easily set up shop in the state leading to job mobility, more money in low income earner pockets and lower costs of goods and costs in the state.