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  Liveable wage please >
  
  How do you legislate that? I want it too but if minimum wage went up to $20 inflation would just erase most of it immediately. 
  We need actual plans that could work, not just "calling for" things. >
  
  The inflation mythos surrounding minimum wage increases: If that were true, the system is already broken, and we need to accept inflation as part of fixing things. >
  
  25 to stay alive >
  
  Higher please >
  
  It should be pegged to productivity. I’m sure it would be higher than $20 in that case. >
  
  A federal minimum wage is stupid. $17 may not be enough in NYC and may be too much in Little Rock >
  
  Egh...did you see the last election in Arkansas, didn't they just elect a extremely far right guy to the senate?  $17 an hour jobs with little rock housing costs might attract some young, educated people the area desperately needs. >
  
  Educated people don't earn minimum wage.  That's an articifial minimum for people who need charity because they have no marketable skills >
  
  Man, I was with you until the whole charity thing. 
  Unskilled workers still work hard and provide a service. If they didn't, businesses would simply not hire them. 
  This is just some bigoted bullshit hating on poor people. Damn. >
  
  Of course some do work hard, some dont.  A business will ordinarily pay them prevailing wage; whatever it would cost to replace them.  If you institute minimum wage.  That's charity.
  There's nothing wrong with charity. It's quite likely more people will require that as AI becomes widespread. >
  
  Charity requires donations. The ai thing kind of kills that when fewer people can donate. That's why many are discussing UBI as the only real solution brought up so far. I don't mean to speak down to the good deeds citizens to to help other citizens. Charity is necessary but it isn't enough now and I heavily doubt it'll get better down the road. >
  
  how about ss retired people that are not rich? >
  
  Ted Kennedy said his biggest regret in his legislature career was not going into an agreement with a Nixon suggestion for health care plan (an Obamacare type plan).  That he refused to support it because it didn't give him everything he wanted (medicare for all type option).  He stated he should have realized it could have gotten there in incremental steps instead of accomplishing nothing.
  Glad Sanders is calling for $17, but he has a large number of Senators that would vote for $12 now - Manchin & Sinema said they would and plenty of states already have that number (including Florida in September this year).  It is not $17, but it is a lot higher than the current $7.25.  
  Don't let perfection be the enemy of progress. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  In his new role as the chair of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Bernie Sanders is calling for the minimum wage to be raised for the first time in nearly 14 years, saying that the old benchmark of $15 an hour is no longer enough.
  On MSNBC on Sunday, Sanders said that it is time for the federal minimum wage to be raised to at least $17 an hour, if not more.
  15 an hour was already insufficient in 2021, many activists said; workers have been waging the "Fight for $15" since 2012, and research done in 2021 by the National Low Income Housing Coalition found that a worker making $15 an hour working 40 hours a week wouldn't be able to afford to rent an average two bedroom apartment in any state in the U.S. If the minimum wage had risen with productivity in past decades, perhaps better reflecting workers' contributions to the economy, the minimum wage would be over $23 now, economists say.
  
  
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  And I still wouldn't be able to afford the childcare for my 2 toddlers, so I could go back to work. >
  
  To address housing is simple. Remove regulations/zoning and built housing >
  
  Zoning is kinda important. So are regulations. >
  
  then make everything mixed residential and commercial to incentivise walkable cities and only zone industry elsewhere.