Hillary tries to be Bernie with Fast Food Workers; Supports fight for $15 an hour

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(06-07-2015, 06:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: If you consider a 40 hours work week a new recruit in the Military earns about $8.30 per hour. Most can earn the pay grade of E-3 in about 1 year. Then they earn $9.90 per hour.

Unfortunately a Soldier works much more than 40 hours per week. A conservative estimate would be 50 hours per week (if not deployed). This means the new recruit earns about $6.70 per hour and an E-3 earns about $7.90 per hour.

It is worth mentioning that Soldiers can be given an extra allowance of about $12 a day for food if they choose not to be on a meal card.

yes.

plus living, health insurance, life insurance, etc. Those who serge deserve more, but lumping it in with so done making $7.50 at McDonald's with no benefits is a little disingenuous.

back to the op, the minimum wage doesn't need to be $15. At least not for most of the country. It should be a state issue as the cost of living varies greatly. In most of Kentucky that's a living wage. In most of new York or California, that's enough to cover not much.