Democrats Want Change

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(07-16-2017, 11:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 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).

So two people working wasn't the result of the cost of living passing up families as wages stagnated, unions were gutted and wealth shifted to the top 1%? 

Weird.

Although I'll add my mother never worked outside of the home.  Sometimes my dad worked two jobs...but I guess that would throw that theory way out of whack.