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In reply to the discussion: If a person is working 40 hours a week, they should be paid enough to live off of. [View all]lightcameron
(224 posts)41. No, I'm wondering how *high* it would have to be.
What would you use as a baseline?
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If a person is working 40 hours a week, they should be paid enough to live off of. [View all]
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2012
OP
I heard the other day that it was $17 per hour plus benefits and get this:
Live and Learn
Nov 2012
#4
Unions are one of the most effective counterbalances to corporate power...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2012
#5
It sounds like you are challenging the very concept, imagining it as "overwhelming"
whathehell
Nov 2012
#9
No, just asking how it would be defined. It would have to be, wouldn't it?
lightcameron
Nov 2012
#38
I don't get this by zip code or smaller shit, I live in the same economy as someone across town
TheKentuckian
Nov 2012
#11
If you don't have any employees, why are you obsessed with the concept of a living wage?
whathehell
Dec 2012
#58
I live in a town where the cost of living is much higher than it is fifteen miles away.
lightcameron
Nov 2012
#39
You're approaching it backward, it's not about making the wage as low as possible.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#22
It would have to be calculated more precisely, but roughly how much does it take
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#45
Read the subject line, rough estimate. But, $30 is about $800 a week take home and
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#69
You do realize the Census already has a existing Cost of Living index...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2012
#66
It was a reality during the post war years of The New Deal when labor unions were strong,
whathehell
Nov 2012
#23
I think it was at least 5 yrs ago that I read a study saying there is no county in the US
librechik
Nov 2012
#26
Well I really hope you didn't learn to write like that in our government schools.
Starry Messenger
Nov 2012
#37
Except most of them will just want to cut off the benefits that helps those workers
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#62
Unions cant be effective with high unemployment. We need jobs in America. nm
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#46