The hourly rate you need to afford a two-bedroom apartment in every state

[GMDino]

(06-08-2016, 11:03 AM)Au165 Wrote: Bingo. It is not as easy as people pretend it is. The guy who was making the new minimum wage before the change will demand a pay increase, as he was obviously worth more than minimum wage before, and then what he gets increased to will have the same effect on the next guy and so on. Now minimum wage gets reset and we are back where we started with inflation. It may take a couple years, but eventually it'll all come back around. For some reason people think in a capitalist society there can be no poor class. There has to be a poor class, it is a matter of how bad the conditions are for the poor class. I think we are better off doing work in the subsidies department over a flat increase.

Same thing with just moving further away.  It is a complicated issue.

But some would rather not discuss the pay end of it.  Because...economics.