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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minimum wage to me means that working people earn enough to not be homeless or to not live on welfare. And yes, enough for a family to get by. A baby consumes surprisingly little. 
The expense is astronomical right now because of the cost of day care, so for those there are day care vouchers and wic

A working person should earn more than someone living off welfare. And a working person should have their own place to live, a means of transportation to work, able to eat well and access to health care[/quote]

Would you calculate the minimum wage required based on one income or two?

Daycare is really expensive. I wish I had some ideas for how to make it more affordable because childcare is an even more complicated issue than housing (in my opinion).

I do think there should be extrinsic rewards for working, like you suggest. One answer is to make the social safety net truly the bare minimum, but I don't think that's something our society would accept. So there needs to be some way to allow for people to move off dependency on the social safety net bit-by-bit as they increase their self sufficiency.

I'm not sure, to be honest, a living wage provides that. Small businesses tend to work on a shoe string budget, and people costs tend to be one of their highest costs. So you have arguments for suppressing the living wage to the bare minimum necessary, which would likely to be very similar to what one achieves just using welfare and other social programs. [/quote]

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