Even after watching the results of the restaurant wage bill, with all the layoffs and price increases, the head honchos will get the peasants to push for this. Which is easy, because the peasants see easy money for low skilled work and head honchos won’t lose their own cushy, over-paid jobs
Labor group demands California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers extend to all sectors
A fair wage advocacy group is demanding that California’s new $20 minimum wage law for fast food workers be extended to all sectors to help working-class people who are struggling with the state’s high cost of living.
FOX Business spoke with Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage to discuss what she described as the skyrocketing levels of home insecurity and food insecurity post-pandemic.
Fast food workers winning a $20 minimum wage, she said, “was just the beginning.”
Jayaraman pointed to the exorbitantly high cost of living in the Golden State where, in some counties, an individual would need a $40 an hour salary to live comfortably.
“People are leaving the state or are not having children, not having families. These are all the very basics we should be thinking about for humans living in California and needing to survive,” Jayaraman told FOX Business. “I mean the level of crisis that people have been enduring since the pandemic is severe.”
Which comes first, the government intervention which causes prices to rise or the prices rising causing government to interfere and make the situation worse? Either way, government interference in the manner the Democrats in California tend to implement always makes things worse, in the manner of “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” And the governments, from local to county to state, of the People’s Republik Of California will almost always listen to the left wing labor groups, because they bring in big money and votes to the politicians.
Jayaraman has dismissed these concerns (of layoffs and job losses), arguing that such dire predictions have not been born out in past minimum wage increases.
“That is the argument they always make. Every single time the minimum wage goes up, they always say it’s going to kill business, jobs will be lost, and we’ve never seen it happen. Not in California, not in any other state. It has never happened,” said Jayaraman, who is also the Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
Except, it’s actually happening right now. Not too mention the price increases, which is a big part of previous increase. There is a point of labor cost where companies just cannot afford the full staff, and have to take measures. Previous wage increases have seen prices rise and some workers replaced with automation. This one saw massive decreases in labor and companies simply closing.
(Fox Business) With hot inflation numbers to prove it, one hacked-off Gen Z American took to TikTok, where he detailed a “struggle to survive” and pay for everyday items.
“Can somebody explain to me in crayon-eating terms why I make over three times the federal minimum wage and I cannot afford to live?” the user allegedly named Nic started to say.
“And I do not want to hear the ‘Pull yourself up from your bootstraps, work 90 hours a week.’ That’s not the goal, guys,” he continued ranting. “A one-bedroom apartment, $1,800. Two-bedroom apartment, $2,200. Who the f*** can afford that? It is embarrassing to come out and say that it is a struggle to survive right now. But I know so many people are struggling.”
Meanwhile, consumer price index data released by the Labor Department on Wednesday showed inflation accelerated in March for the third straight month, keeping prices painfully high for millions of Americans and likely delaying any interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. (snip)
Housing and gasoline costs were the biggest drivers of inflation last month, accounting for more than half of the total monthly increase.
Well, you can bet the Gen Z voted Democrat and supports all the Democrat initiates, and got what he voted for. The inflation started with the Chinese coronavirus, then exploded thanks to so many governments in the U.S. and around the world shutting down industry, then Biden doing everything wrong to deal with the aftermath. You voted for this. And you’ll probably vote for it again.
Europeans, who have a more balanced income/wealth ratio between rich and poor, can help guide us on leveling the playing field here.
Since the US has a progressive federal tax system, we take more from the rich to redistribute to the poor.
But…
As the US reduces support for higher education; as one of our dominant political parties eschews labor unions, universal healthcare and labor regulations; the US poor will continue to get poorer and the rich will get richer.
Rimjob’s copy&paste twaddle.
Fat boy actually thinks he’s making a valid point.
the states high cost of living is due to the government of california. and yet, you keep voting in the same people who are screwing you
You should move from California!!
The US median household income is $74,580 (2022). The median individual income is $40,480 (2022).
Median means half the households make less and half make more than the median. It is not the average.
Is a society considered successful if it’s lowest paying full-time adult jobs pay $20/hr? 40 hr/wk x $20/hr x 52 wk = $41,600. Not bad with added low cost health insurance.
The US GDP/worker is $161,013 (2022) meaning every (on average!!) adult worker contributes that amount to the economy!! Of course, that productivity does not accrue equally across all workers! Nor should it!
But does Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, any number of Waltons, Nikolai Jokic or Joe Burrow contribute a thousand, even a million times more to the fabric of America than does a Mississippi elementary school teacher ($47,690)?
One of the great things about the Pyrite State is that even though most don’t live any better than us rednecks in Kentucky, they get paid more money to compensate for their higher prices. That means that they pay more in federal income taxes to help support other states.
Yep. Most of those rich blue state voters subsidize us hillbillies in red states like Missouri and Kentucky!! We rednecks should all be grateful to CA, NY, MA, IL, CT, NJ, WA, DC etc!