$25 min wage in DC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That so many are worried about paying people a living wage that reflects COL in 2025 / 2026 vs paying closer attention to the billions of dollars companies make while exploiting the humans who work for them everyday, making the taxpayer subsidize the insufficient wages, and paying their CEOs absurd amounts of money while simultaneously incorporating AI to reduce headcount and maximize profit even further.

Corporate greed has twisted the narrative and the reality. Walmart could afford to pay living wages and still be incredibly profitable.

Walmart does pay a living wage for full-time workers. Part-time workers are the problem.

I’m not giving them a pass. Part time, full time, these jobs should ALL get paid living wages. This is one of the biggest, wealthiest corporation in the country. They could pay living wages to every single employee and still be flush in $$$. It’s corporate greed. Enough.

Please go educate yourself on how companies work kid. "Corporate greed" is not a thing.

Bless your heart. I’m a 50 year old who works for corporate America. Yes, love, it’s a thing.

Hoping this was your attempt at sarcasm ….

Literally every company is "greedy", champ. Otherwise they would go out of business.

Are you a 50 naive person that thinks companies should give away money?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That so many are worried about paying people a living wage that reflects COL in 2025 / 2026 vs paying closer attention to the billions of dollars companies make while exploiting the humans who work for them everyday, making the taxpayer subsidize the insufficient wages, and paying their CEOs absurd amounts of money while simultaneously incorporating AI to reduce headcount and maximize profit even further.

Corporate greed has twisted the narrative and the reality. Walmart could afford to pay living wages and still be incredibly profitable.

Walmart does pay a living wage for full-time workers. Part-time workers are the problem.

I’m not giving them a pass. Part time, full time, these jobs should ALL get paid living wages. This is one of the biggest, wealthiest corporation in the country. They could pay living wages to every single employee and still be flush in $$$. It’s corporate greed. Enough.

Please go educate yourself on how companies work kid. "Corporate greed" is not a thing.

I'm an antitrust attorney. Corporate greed is 100% a thing.

Please name me a company that is not "greedy".

I'll wait.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That so many are worried about paying people a living wage that reflects COL in 2025 / 2026 vs paying closer attention to the billions of dollars companies make while exploiting the humans who work for them everyday, making the taxpayer subsidize the insufficient wages, and paying their CEOs absurd amounts of money while simultaneously incorporating AI to reduce headcount and maximize profit even further.

Corporate greed has twisted the narrative and the reality. Walmart could afford to pay living wages and still be incredibly profitable.

Walmart does pay a living wage for full-time workers. Part-time workers are the problem.

I’m not giving them a pass. Part time, full time, these jobs should ALL get paid living wages. This is one of the biggest, wealthiest corporation in the country. They could pay living wages to every single employee and still be flush in $$$. It’s corporate greed. Enough.

Please go educate yourself on how companies work kid. "Corporate greed" is not a thing.

Bless your heart. I’m a 50 year old who works for corporate America. Yes, love, it’s a thing.

Hoping this was your attempt at sarcasm ….

Bless your heart. Please tell me a single company that is not "greedy", then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine having to pay some teenager the equivalent of roughly $55k per year just to wash dishes or scrub toilets:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/workers-labor-advocates-call-for-dc-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-25/4025867/

R.I.P. DC economy. No am I going to pay $100/entree for mediocre food or, $900/night for a garbage hotel simply because businesses have to cover out control labor costs.

Teenagers are not during these jobs. They are competing with people who can work all year, without regard to limited hour restrictions. Basically most of these jobs are occupied by adults taking care of a family. With that said, that is a ridiculously high minimum wage salary for so little skills, so the question becomes will salary automatically increase for the skilled labor.

If someone with zero education and no skills gets $55k to take out your office trash bins, now your secretary with a bachelor's degree and 10 years experience will demand $110k salary just to afford restaurants that now cost $60/entree. If the secretary makes $110k, now we gotta pay teacher $200k, the scientist $350k and doctors $1M per year. The wage inflation spiral will never end until we are paying $1000 for dinner at Applebee's.

Has your salary increased since 2009? Things don't cost what they did in 2009, when the federal minimum wage was last raised. Could you maintain your lifestyle if you hadn't had a riase since 2009?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, if the Walmart heirs and heiresses weren't interested in being multi-billionaires, they might actually pay their workers more. But, shoppers also don't care about wages, which is why so many people shop there and put people and towns out of business.

Sounds like you haven't read a newspaper since the 90s. The federal minimum wage is $7.25. The average hourly employee at Wal-Mart currently makes $18.25 an hour.

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-employee-treatment-success-f96761f4?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdqmg8bBjJ4Mu3G36K_AmBwCqBm1T9WjKD4hzTapQQFgsgqnV5sRMmXr56-UO0%3D&gaa_ts=69421f96&gaa_sig=YTOKYpTeVAaHHYds3f6MTu7az8lOByKxRTWOQrbzm3OGyPZhd2mCX2oZryHnTQ6LCD6rt29COIvTC0k8vmV2GA%3D%3D

Walmart, Once a Byword for Low Pay, Becomes a Case Study in How to Treat Workers

The largest private employer in the U.S. increased wages in a bid to jump-start sales. Investors needed to be convinced.

I don’t have a subscription, but they’re mentioning 10 years ago at Walmart. Do they talk about Walmart’s underemployment leading to excessive use of public funds? Taxpayers have been bailing out Walmart for decades.

Walmart Is Still Putting Ebenezer Scrooge to Shame
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/walmart-living-wage-medicaid-snap

Walmart, McDonald's among largest employers of SNAP, Medicaid recipients: Report
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/walmart-mcdonalds-largest-employers-snap-medicaid-recipients.amp

If the average Walmart employee makes $18.50 an hour, that translates to $38,500 per year. The federal poverty level for one person is $15,560. For two people, it's $21,150. For four people, it's $32,150.

DP: It is rare for someone at WM making $18.50 to get a schedule that gets them to $38,500 annual. You are lucky to get 34 hours in any given week. Most people who work minimum jobs there also have several other gigs to make ends meet. And should we really be celebrating that a company whose handful of executives (nevermind the billionare owners) make more than the rest of the employees combined pays enough for a family of 4 to just barely stay above poverty level?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine having to pay some teenager the equivalent of roughly $55k per year just to wash dishes or scrub toilets:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/workers-labor-advocates-call-for-dc-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-25/4025867/

R.I.P. DC economy. No am I going to pay $100/entree for mediocre food or, $900/night for a garbage hotel simply because businesses have to cover out control labor costs.

Teenagers are not during these jobs. They are competing with people who can work all year, without regard to limited hour restrictions. Basically most of these jobs are occupied by adults taking care of a family. With that said, that is a ridiculously high minimum wage salary for so little skills, so the question becomes will salary automatically increase for the skilled labor.

If someone with zero education and no skills gets $55k to take out your office trash bins, now your secretary with a bachelor's degree and 10 years experience will demand $110k salary just to afford restaurants that now cost $60/entree. If the secretary makes $110k, now we gotta pay teacher $200k, the scientist $350k and doctors $1M per year. The wage inflation spiral will never end until we are paying $1000 for dinner at Applebee's.

Has your salary increased since 2009? Things don't cost what they did in 2009, when the federal minimum wage was last raised. Could you maintain your lifestyle if you hadn't had a riase since 2009?

Are you really this ignorant? Wages at the bottom have *boomed* in the past few years. The gains for low income people since the pandemic have been nothing less than historic. The minimum wage is increasingly irrelevant because companies have to pay far above it just to get anyone to work for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, if the Walmart heirs and heiresses weren't interested in being multi-billionaires, they might actually pay their workers more. But, shoppers also don't care about wages, which is why so many people shop there and put people and towns out of business.

Sounds like you haven't read a newspaper since the 90s. The federal minimum wage is $7.25. The average hourly employee at Wal-Mart currently makes $18.25 an hour.

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-employee-treatment-success-f96761f4?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdqmg8bBjJ4Mu3G36K_AmBwCqBm1T9WjKD4hzTapQQFgsgqnV5sRMmXr56-UO0%3D&gaa_ts=69421f96&gaa_sig=YTOKYpTeVAaHHYds3f6MTu7az8lOByKxRTWOQrbzm3OGyPZhd2mCX2oZryHnTQ6LCD6rt29COIvTC0k8vmV2GA%3D%3D

Walmart, Once a Byword for Low Pay, Becomes a Case Study in How to Treat Workers

The largest private employer in the U.S. increased wages in a bid to jump-start sales. Investors needed to be convinced.

I don’t have a subscription, but they’re mentioning 10 years ago at Walmart. Do they talk about Walmart’s underemployment leading to excessive use of public funds? Taxpayers have been bailing out Walmart for decades.

Walmart Is Still Putting Ebenezer Scrooge to Shame
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/walmart-living-wage-medicaid-snap

Walmart, McDonald's among largest employers of SNAP, Medicaid recipients: Report
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/walmart-mcdonalds-largest-employers-snap-medicaid-recipients.amp

If the average Walmart employee makes $18.50 an hour, that translates to $38,500 per year. The federal poverty level for one person is $15,560. For two people, it's $21,150. For four people, it's $32,150.

DP: It is rare for someone at WM making $18.50 to get a schedule that gets them to $38,500 annual. You are lucky to get 34 hours in any given week. Most people who work minimum jobs there also have several other gigs to make ends meet. And should we really be celebrating that a company whose handful of executives (nevermind the billionare owners) make more than the rest of the employees combined pays enough for a family of 4 to just barely stay above poverty level?

NP and I think Walmart is an awful company and absolutely should pay more. I think their practices of shorting people hours to not have to pay benefits, etc. is really gross. What I don’t agree with, however, is that a clerk at Walmart should make a living wage to support a family of four. A living wage to support yourself and one other person? Sure. But not a family of four. That is a thing of the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, if the Walmart heirs and heiresses weren't interested in being multi-billionaires, they might actually pay their workers more. But, shoppers also don't care about wages, which is why so many people shop there and put people and towns out of business.

Sounds like you haven't read a newspaper since the 90s. The federal minimum wage is $7.25. The average hourly employee at Wal-Mart currently makes $18.25 an hour.

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-employee-treatment-success-f96761f4?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdqmg8bBjJ4Mu3G36K_AmBwCqBm1T9WjKD4hzTapQQFgsgqnV5sRMmXr56-UO0%3D&gaa_ts=69421f96&gaa_sig=YTOKYpTeVAaHHYds3f6MTu7az8lOByKxRTWOQrbzm3OGyPZhd2mCX2oZryHnTQ6LCD6rt29COIvTC0k8vmV2GA%3D%3D

Walmart, Once a Byword for Low Pay, Becomes a Case Study in How to Treat Workers

The largest private employer in the U.S. increased wages in a bid to jump-start sales. Investors needed to be convinced.

I don’t have a subscription, but they’re mentioning 10 years ago at Walmart. Do they talk about Walmart’s underemployment leading to excessive use of public funds? Taxpayers have been bailing out Walmart for decades.

Walmart Is Still Putting Ebenezer Scrooge to Shame
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/walmart-living-wage-medicaid-snap

Walmart, McDonald's among largest employers of SNAP, Medicaid recipients: Report
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/walmart-mcdonalds-largest-employers-snap-medicaid-recipients.amp

If the average Walmart employee makes $18.50 an hour, that translates to $38,500 per year. The federal poverty level for one person is $15,560. For two people, it's $21,150. For four people, it's $32,150.

DP: It is rare for someone at WM making $18.50 to get a schedule that gets them to $38,500 annual. You are lucky to get 34 hours in any given week. Most people who work minimum jobs there also have several other gigs to make ends meet. And should we really be celebrating that a company whose handful of executives (nevermind the billionare owners) make more than the rest of the employees combined pays enough for a family of 4 to just barely stay above poverty level?

NP and I think Walmart is an awful company and absolutely should pay more. I think their practices of shorting people hours to not have to pay benefits, etc. is really gross. What I don’t agree with, however, is that a clerk at Walmart should make a living wage to support a family of four. A living wage to support yourself and one other person? Sure. But not a family of four. That is a thing of the past.

Ahem, support a family of four, make a mortgage payment on a nice SFH, save for retirement, and afford two cars.

[Anonymous]

About 500 bars and restaurants have closed in the DC region the past few years so let's see how many this year adds to the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About 500 bars and restaurants have closed in the DC region the past few years so let's see how many this year adds to the list.

Seems like under 300 since 2022. So many of them should have never been allowed to open or stay open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That so many are worried about paying people a living wage that reflects COL in 2025 / 2026 vs paying closer attention to the billions of dollars companies make while exploiting the humans who work for them everyday, making the taxpayer subsidize the insufficient wages, and paying their CEOs absurd amounts of money while simultaneously incorporating AI to reduce headcount and maximize profit even further.

Then let's start with you. You could give more of your salary away. You don't need it all. Share with a person who makes less than you.

Corporate greed has twisted the narrative and the reality. Walmart could afford to pay living wages and still be incredibly profitable.

Walmart does pay a living wage for full-time workers. Part-time workers are the problem.

I’m not giving them a pass. Part time, full time, these jobs should ALL get paid living wages. This is one of the biggest, wealthiest corporation in the country. They could pay living wages to every single employee and still be flush in $$$. It’s corporate greed. Enough.

Please go educate yourself on how companies work kid. "Corporate greed" is not a thing.

I'm an antitrust attorney. Corporate greed is 100% a thing.