Minimum Wage should be $21.72 per hour - Center for Economic Policy and Research

[TheGoodNews]

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/jontalton/2014/01/17/vote-should-seattle-raise-the-minimum-wage/

[Timez Squarez]

1. Agreed!

make it even 25 bucks, and we'll be set for the next few decades.

Voted 15+ bucks minimum wage on the accompanying poll too.

[Politicalboi]

2. Just think of the pizza's

How will that asshole billionaire of Domino's make money. They're crying about $10.10 in 3 YEARS. This ain't never gonna happen.

[TheGoodNews]

3. Minimum wage in other countries.

According to this Denmark's "minimum wage" averaged around $20.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. That's the average of union-negotiated minimum wage settlements

which is a bit different from a legal minimum wage (also, that $20 is at the market exchange rate - the purchasing power parity rate for the Danish Krone is 7.64 to the dollar, which would make DKK110 $14.40).

The highest legal minimum wage there, using a purchasing power parity rate (which is appropriate for when we're talking about what you need to live on), is Luxembourg's at $11.10, with France close behind at $10.71.

The expression of it as the percentage of GDP per capita is an interesting concept - for Luxembourg it's 25.3% (they're pretty rich - lots of banks), France 54%, and USA 30.2%. You have to wonder how Argentina manages at 120.7% - not everyone is employed, but still ...

[TheGoodNews]

6. "This ain't never gonna happen."

Maybe worker co-ops might be a way to make this happen. Consider The Alvarado Street bakery depicted in Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story at 01:00:28 (Take a look):

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$65+K per year for assembly workers!

[madville]

4. Depends on the area

In the rural county I'm from $21 an hour would make for a comfortable living. I currently make $24 an hour in a larger city and it's paycheck to paycheck most of the time.

It should be based on locality tables like federal employee pay is.

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Yep. That's why I'm tired of talking about a "minimum" wage........

It's time to talk about a living wage based on the local costs. Also job sharing at full pay until everybody that wants a job has one.

[TheGoodNews]

7. From today's headlines...

An initiative for a $15/hour wage minimum:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/14/seattle-group-files-15-minimum-wage-initiative/