Wake
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Since minimum wage affects such a small portion of the population, the increases will be miniscule. 35 cents. He could have added 5 cents to each item on the menu and nobody would have batted an eye, but he wants to make a statement. Do you really think that our lowest paid workers don't deserve a raise? That they should lose income every year as inflation takes away more and more of their spending power?
Minimum wage jobs aren't meant to be lived on, unless you work multiple jobs. If you want to make something of yourself, you should save the money you earn and apply it towards getting a better job. I don't know if they deserve a raise, but for darned sure they don't deserve to be making more than caregivers and CNAs.
Maybe there should be more of an incentive on both the Right and Left to lower inflation and stop digging ourselves deeper in debt. Minimum wage doesn't affect a small portion of the population, either, because there are many people earning minimum wage, and many other people that are affected by those who earn minimum wage.
I think more statements like this should be made. No one is entitled to a raise, let alone a job. With respect, I think people on the Left should be more open-minded about the consequences of continuously raising minimum wage. With minimum wage increasing, other costs increase as well to keep business owners from losing profit or going bankrupt. It's economics.
I was a NA before they were certified. We made minimum wage. CNAs don't make much more, if they do make more at all. By raising minimum wage, they get a raise, as do caregivers. And trust me, I know, most of them make minimum wage as well. My son is severely autistic. I know about caregivers. They are treated like crap. The company they work for charges the state (or they did a few years ago) more than $20.00 an hour, while paying the employee doing the work minimum wage. If you are working for yourself and get hired as a caregiver, the state still pays minimum wage, they pocket that extra money they pay the organizations that employ caregivers. What's more, before Andrew was placed, they wanted to end their contract with those organizations and make the parents find the caregivers themselves so the state could just pay minimum wage.
I personally, believe that in the richest country in the world, the poorest worker should be making a living wage. Plain and simple, they aren't.
No country can long survive with the majority of it's wealth in the hands of a few. (I can't remember who said that, I think it was Plato.)
Currently in WI the minimum wage is $7.25. The two jobs I work as a CNA pay $9.78 and $10.50, respectively.
I remember when I worked at Jimmy Johns six years ago. The raise I had received was eliminated by the increase in minimum wage, and the employer would not reinstate that raise. I don't make minimum wage as a CNA, and all the jobs I've researched and sent my resume to have been above the $9.40 limit, which is $2.15 above the current minimum.
Caregivers (which I am working as in both professions) do get treated like shit, are underpaid, and deal with a lot of crap. I have ZERO sympathy for the morons who complain about flipping burgers and sweeping floors. Let's see them using their digits to relieve a client suffering from autonomic dysreflexia, or toilet and spongebath a badly contracted client suffering from severe Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS). You're right about the state charging more, and if I figured out how to go self-employed I could literally charge $20-30 per hour. I'm pretty sure one could be self-employed as a caregiver/CNA and make some good money (this includes the cost of buying an LLC, different insurances, etc).
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