Low Income Workers Seeing Best Wage Hikes in a Decade

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Importing another 25 million illegals willing to work for $5/day while cheating the welfare system will drive up wages.

Raise the minimum wage to fifteen an hour.

You really don't want those lacking job skills to ever get a job...do you, Daniel?

lol. Not if they have to be subsidized in our First World economy so the Richest can rely on Cheap labor.

Unemployment compensation on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States!

So how does this work? You have half the population collecting unemployment while their jobs are all replaced with robots and somehow the other half pays for all of this? You don't have a clue about the real world...do you, Daniel? People need entry level jobs so they can learn job skills. When you raise minimum wage to ridiculous amounts like $15 an hour you decrease the number of entry level jobs. The people that are hurt most are the young and the poor.

And for what? So you can feel good about yourself? You're a bit of a douche only you don't know it!

 

[LoneLaugher]

There are still people who believe that Trump understands the world economy and has a plan for how to guide America through it.

The man has never spoken in detail about any policy position. He cannot.

Case in point. He has recently aimed that he could easily solve the problem of homelessness in certain US cities.

Can any Trump supporter tell us what he said he would do in this regard?

 

[LoneLaugher]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

Awww. The dude who tells us how honest he is has lied about how much a burger will cost if we pay people enough to live on. Sad. Believe me.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Importing another 25 million illegals willing to work for $5/day while cheating the welfare system will drive up wages.

Raise the minimum wage to fifteen an hour.

....and eliminate millions of jobs.....

We don't need minimum wage jobs; go ahead and automate and stop "hating on the Poor".

If we did not have minimum wage jobs, the poor would be even poorer. We have minimum wage jobs because those jobs are minimum skill jobs. They are starter jobs and jobs to help people move on to the next tier.

 

[Correll]

1. We have had several long running economic booms.

2. 2008 seems like an oddity. It was well after the sub prime crash. But accepted.

3. If you now agree that reducing supply increases wages, are you now open to deporting illegals and/or limiting immigration to raise wages?

1. Not really. Since 1970 only one other than this one has lasted more than 7 years. What we are experiencing is an anomaly.

2. You asked ,I gave.

3. I have never been against either.

7 years is not the norm. 3 to 4 is more normal. We have been having extended up cycles since the Reagan years.


And yet wages have been lagging badly.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

Awww. The dude who tells us how honest he is has lied about how much a burger will cost if we pay people enough to live on. Sad. Believe me.

I lied? What was the lie?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

1. We have had several long running economic booms.

2. 2008 seems like an oddity. It was well after the sub prime crash. But accepted.

3. If you now agree that reducing supply increases wages, are you now open to deporting illegals and/or limiting immigration to raise wages?

1. Not really. Since 1970 only one other than this one has lasted more than 7 years. What we are experiencing is an anomaly.

2. You asked ,I gave.

3. I have never been against either.

7 years is not the norm. 3 to 4 is more normal. We have been having extended up cycles since the Reagan years.


And yet wages have been lagging badly.

Since Reagan we have had 1 year, 7 years and 8 months, 10 years and 6 years 1 month. And according to the article in the OP the last time lower end wages went up was at the end of the 10 year stretch...just like now.

Seems that might be the magic number for the lower end labor pool to tighten enough to see real wage gains.

 

[Correll]

1. We have had several long running economic booms.

2. 2008 seems like an oddity. It was well after the sub prime crash. But accepted.

3. If you now agree that reducing supply increases wages, are you now open to deporting illegals and/or limiting immigration to raise wages?

1. Not really. Since 1970 only one other than this one has lasted more than 7 years. What we are experiencing is an anomaly.

2. You asked ,I gave.

3. I have never been against either.

7 years is not the norm. 3 to 4 is more normal. We have been having extended up cycles since the Reagan years.


And yet wages have been lagging badly.

Since Reagan we have had 1 year, 7 years and 8 months, 10 years and 6 years 1 month. And according to the article in the OP the last time lower end wages went up was at the end of the 10 year stretch...just like now.

Seems that might be the magic number for the lower end labor pool to tighten enough to see real wage gains.

If so, that is not good enough.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

It won't be an extra Ten dollars; even the dollar menu won't double.

In my state, minimum wage is 8.25, so you are wanting to almost double that. And if the lowest end people get paid more, those above them would need cosponsoring pay raises. It is an endless cycle that never works out well for the people it is supposed to help

 

[LoneLaugher]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

Awww. The dude who tells us how honest he is has lied about how much a burger will cost if we pay people enough to live on. Sad. Believe me.

I lied? What was the lie?

You know that the price of a burger will not go up by $10. if the minimum wage is raised to $15 per hour. That was a lie aimed at duping morons.

One of our holier than thou both sides whiners is using propaganda to make his case. Sad.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

1. We have had several long running economic booms.

2. 2008 seems like an oddity. It was well after the sub prime crash. But accepted.

3. If you now agree that reducing supply increases wages, are you now open to deporting illegals and/or limiting immigration to raise wages?

1. Not really. Since 1970 only one other than this one has lasted more than 7 years. What we are experiencing is an anomaly.

2. You asked ,I gave.

3. I have never been against either.

7 years is not the norm. 3 to 4 is more normal. We have been having extended up cycles since the Reagan years.


And yet wages have been lagging badly.

Since Reagan we have had 1 year, 7 years and 8 months, 10 years and 6 years 1 month. And according to the article in the OP the last time lower end wages went up was at the end of the 10 year stretch...just like now.

Seems that might be the magic number for the lower end labor pool to tighten enough to see real wage gains.

If so, that is not good enough.

And what is your solution? Low end wage jobs are also low skill jobs than anyone could do, thus there is least amount of incentive to pay them more.

 

[LoneLaugher]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

It won't be an extra Ten dollars; even the dollar menu won't double.

In my state, minimum wage is 8.25, so you are wanting to almost double that. And if the lowest end people get paid more, those above them would need cosponsoring pay raises. It is an endless cycle that never works out well for the people it is supposed to help

Incorrect.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

Awww. The dude who tells us how honest he is has lied about how much a burger will cost if we pay people enough to live on. Sad. Believe me.

I lied? What was the lie?

You know that the price of a burger will not go up by $10. if the minimum wage is raised to $15 per hour. That was a lie aimed at duping morons.

One of our holier than thou both sides whiners is using propaganda to make his case. Sad.

Did I say that the price would go up by $10?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

It won't be an extra Ten dollars; even the dollar menu won't double.

In my state, minimum wage is 8.25, so you are wanting to almost double that. And if the lowest end people get paid more, those above them would need cosponsoring pay raises. It is an endless cycle that never works out well for the people it is supposed to help

Incorrect.

Show some evidence I am incorrect. Because I said so does not really cut it.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Suppose the minimum wage is increased and it does not result in a corresponding wage increase for non-minimum wage workers ( which is what will happen, by the way ), will prices go up on those burgers?

 

[LoneLaugher]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

Awww. The dude who tells us how honest he is has lied about how much a burger will cost if we pay people enough to live on. Sad. Believe me.

I lied? What was the lie?

You know that the price of a burger will not go up by $10. if the minimum wage is raised to $15 per hour. That was a lie aimed at duping morons.

One of our holier than thou both sides whiners is using propaganda to make his case. Sad.

Did I say that the price would go up by $10?

Yes.

 

[LoneLaugher]

You hate them more for your bottom line instead of raising prices and passing along costs to Consumers, like usual.

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

It won't be an extra Ten dollars; even the dollar menu won't double.

In my state, minimum wage is 8.25, so you are wanting to almost double that. And if the lowest end people get paid more, those above them would need cosponsoring pay raises. It is an endless cycle that never works out well for the people it is supposed to help

Incorrect.

Show some evidence I am incorrect. Because I said so does not really cut it.

Seattle. All the evidence one needs.

 

[Correll]

1. We have had several long running economic booms.

2. 2008 seems like an oddity. It was well after the sub prime crash. But accepted.

3. If you now agree that reducing supply increases wages, are you now open to deporting illegals and/or limiting immigration to raise wages?

1. Not really. Since 1970 only one other than this one has lasted more than 7 years. What we are experiencing is an anomaly.

2. You asked ,I gave.

3. I have never been against either.

7 years is not the norm. 3 to 4 is more normal. We have been having extended up cycles since the Reagan years.


And yet wages have been lagging badly.

Since Reagan we have had 1 year, 7 years and 8 months, 10 years and 6 years 1 month. And according to the article in the OP the last time lower end wages went up was at the end of the 10 year stretch...just like now.

Seems that might be the magic number for the lower end labor pool to tighten enough to see real wage gains.

If so, that is not good enough.

And what is your solution? Low end wage jobs are also low skill jobs than anyone could do, thus there is least amount of incentive to pay them more.

Trade policy to maximize potential for those jobs, and immigration policy to dry up the labor pool for those jobs.


I've seen the difference for those jobs between different environments. I saw what happened when my mother-in-law's work place (hospital where she worked as a nurse's aide) was bought out by a major urban hospital.


Before hand, she made a decent wage, based on the environment of the rural area it was placed in. She had been able to support her family while her husband spent years slowly building up his small business.

Once the new system came in, and changed the pay scale to what had developed in the city, wages were drastically lowered, and she choose to retire at that point.



A difference of a few dollars an hour, pay wise, can be the difference between poverty, and working poor, or even lower middle class.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Consumers will not pay an extra 10 bucks for a burger so that your artificial minimum wage can be maintained.

The market works when people leave it alone.

Awww. The dude who tells us how honest he is has lied about how much a burger will cost if we pay people enough to live on. Sad. Believe me.

I lied? What was the lie?

You know that the price of a burger will not go up by $10. if the minimum wage is raised to $15 per hour. That was a lie aimed at duping morons.

One of our holier than thou both sides whiners is using propaganda to make his case. Sad.

Did I say that the price would go up by $10?

Yes.

You have a reading comprehension problem. Have you thought about going back and getting your GED and working on that?

 

[MAGAman]

Perfect time to raise the minimum wage
When it will have the least impact

Sure. Ledtards would love to have millions of low wage workers lose their jobs and tank the economy.

You people are so transparent.