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(08-14-2019, 11:55 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: Only thing that’s been moving wages the last 2-3 years is the “Fight for $15” and voter initiated ballot measures raising the minimum wage. The “free market” theory that low unemployment would raise wages has fallen flat on its face.

Yeah, most companies put a dollar amount on what they're willing to pay, not what they have to pay. There's a cookie plant in my area that pays around $12 an hour. They're regularly 25-30 percent short on staff and every few years talk about moving (or the company sells to another one). But they view it as a $12 an hour job and don't budge.