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Minimum wage in major cities is usually in the mid-twenties these days. The idea of a federal minimum wage is kind of silly, considering how different the cost of living is across the country. Living wages should be calculated and enforced at the city or county level.

You're right, $23 is what I usually use and rounded, and that's an old number probably based on my own experience of when the minimum was okay. Looking back, even your range may be too low, as production began to outpace wages in the early 70s, making a comparable matching minimum close to $40.

In the end it's about a wage being livable, whatever that needs to be. And it probably shouldn't be a per hour number, as a company forced to pay per hour an amount can easily just reduce hours, defeating the point. Some sort of universal basic income, so wages become a supplement and not slavery? We have to change somehow.

Dare I say it's totally fucking Marxist and anti-American to suggest that people be paid for their labor based on financial need? This also makes boomers have a meltdown

A hard time?

Some of those 7.25s will technically be even lower, that's the federal minimum that will apply to pretty much all jobs, but they still have it on the books that if they could, they'd fuck you over even harder. Georgia's for instance is 5.15 which can come up in some niche circumstances, and some don't even have a listed minimum