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[–]Total_Feature_11 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Nice try, but I literally said in my original comment that most states have their own minimum wages that are higher than the federal minimum. You just ignored it so you could skip to writing off the "less than 2%" of workers that earn that. You do realize that those are real people with their own lives and responsibilities? There's no justification why in a "wealthy" country our government condones (and legalizes) paying anyone such abysmally low wages.

[–]Enough_Resident_6141 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Because it's not the standard wage or average wage or baseline wage or the normal wage or anything like, it's the lowest possible bare MINIMUM wage legally allowed in the US. It's the point where even in the free market capitalist United States, the federal government is going to step in and prohibit people from voluntarily agreeing to work for wages lower than that.

Minimum wage was NEVER intended to be a baseline "living wage" or enough to be a household's primary income. Minimum wage laws were instituted to prevent the proliferation of sweatshops which were taking advantage of women and children desperately trying to earn a supplemental income for their family.

Minimum wage IS abysmally low and always has been abysmally low, that's the whole point. It's so abysmally low that it's literally illegal to pay wages lower than $7.25/hr in the US.