Democrats Want Change

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(07-16-2017, 10:40 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Problem is that our economy has shifted. Jobs that one could work and support a family, like on a factory floor, have been replaced with those service industry jobs you are mentioning. Your reasoning works if we hadn't lost those manufacturing jobs, but they are gone and aren't coming back. So we need to figure out something.

Maybe if the entire country went back to a 1 worker family model, the economy would go back to where 1 person working could support a family? Lol

Time to put a lot men and women back in the kitchen, making sandwiches.

But that's seriously a perfect example of why simply raising the minimum wage to $15/hr isn't an actual solution. Before women entered the workforce in mass, a family could live off of one person's salary. Then two people started working and it was good for a little, until two people working became the norm, then it adjusted to the fact that two people working was required to support a family (obviously excepting if you have a particularly good job).