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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
At 40 hours a week I was like three hundred bucks off and I'm the one focusing on minute details? My original point was responding to the claims everywhere by multiple posters saying minimum wage jobs automatically keep people below the poverty line. I was slightly off saying the old wage didn't get you above the low income cut off. But now that our new minimum wage gets everyone well above that cut off I fail to see why anyone still uses that as a metric. Oy vey.
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You're the one bringing it up. Oh, they are only slightly below the poverty line. Great reasoning there. You don't see how that's a major problem?
And we're focusing on individuals. Want to talk about one-income families with multiple children?
You should be seeing it as a problem that full time employment at minimum wage is still keeping people below the poverty line. You were happy to proclaim that wasn't the case as part of your argument. Now that you've found out that to be false, at least in a lot of situations, should you not be concerned?
As for $15 dollars, I have stated it's overkill. But really a person working 40 hours a week is going to make $31,200 a year. It's not like they will be swimming in wealth.
I understand, I've argued, that $15 may be a hurdle for some businesses. But don't bring up the ####ing poverty line and act like minimum wage workers are doing just fine. You clearly don't know #### about them.
Here's a decent write-up on the living wage for Edmonton. For a family of four, two adults and two children (age 3 and 7) the living wage is calculated to be $17.36 for both adults. They use 35 hours per adult, so even if we bump it to 40 hours, that still gives us $15.20. For a single parent with a child, the living wage is over $19.
http://www.edmontonsocialplanning.ca...ving-wage/file
It breaks it down so you can read, you may not agree with all of it but it's pretty clear that the living wage for Edmonton is not anywhere close to the current $12.20 minimum wage.