Anonymous wrote:I think anyone who works a full time job, no matter how skilled or unskilled, should be able to afford the bare minimum. A one bedroom apartment, utilities, car payment, insurance, food, medication, haircuts, and the occasional treat. Plus have a few dollars left for savings. Whatever all that costs in any particular area is what a 40 hour a week job should add up to cover.

So in the DC metropolitan region, th eminimum wage should be what? $60.00 an hour?

This is insane to sub at a school BSN in nursing for years of college and state boards we get 21 dollars an hour that for a person at a restaurant is far to much all of the restaurants will fold I hope people live to cook

It drives inflation. Going from $12 or $15 per hour to $20 per hour minimum wage will ramp up inflation.

I don’t understand the concept of a livable wage being needed for fast food workers. Maybe it’s different in California, but where I live in Ga, the fast good workers are exclusively teenagers. They live at home and go to high school or college. The majority work part time.

What is the point of paying them a livable wage that’s high enough to support a family on?

Shouldn’t higher wages only be paid if the skillset or industry dictates that?

I have worked in restaurants and Fast food, and that is THE MOST low skilled industry I have ever personally experienced. Have you seen the toilets in a McDonald’s? These workers do the absolute barest minimum, and barely even do that. You’re lucky if they even show up for every scheduled shift each week.

Why should they be paid more than their skill set is worth??

Anonymous wrote:I think anyone who works a full time job, no matter how skilled or unskilled, should be able to afford the bare minimum. A one bedroom apartment, utilities, car payment, insurance, food, medication, haircuts, and the occasional treat. Plus have a few dollars left for savings. Whatever all that costs in any particular area is what a 40 hour a week job should add up to cover.

This is funny. I worked in DCPS as an aide about 35 hours a week getting paid $2060 a month. My studio nearby was $1300 which was awesome price was DC. I had BA and 35 hours of MA. It was so miserable that I went back to my old job.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in CA. It’ll be a bonanza for our teenagers with part-time jobs! They make good money!

Wow…a Californian posting on DCUM. How’s those 14% state income taxes you voted for ?

A different Californian here but I work very few hours so I get a tax refund! Those s*ckers are paying for me lol

Another Californian (there are many of us on DCUM, check the advertising stats!). The prices have definitely gone up. Fast food chains will survive, I’m more concerned about the independent restaurants.

Prices will go up! Simple as that!

I think anyone who works a full time job, no matter how skilled or unskilled, should be able to afford the bare minimum. A one bedroom apartment, utilities, car payment, insurance, food, medication, haircuts, and the occasional treat. Plus have a few dollars left for savings. Whatever all that costs in any particular area is what a 40 hour a week job should add up to cover.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems to me those businesses will just pass on those higher labor costs in the prices of their food and then the cycle begins all over again. Fast food preparation is unskilled labor.

Of course they will.. It’s all over the headlines now. Five guys a meal at five guys is $25 now. A McDonald’s value meal is about $12. Fast food is starting to become a luxury.

For these prices they should be paying $20+ an hour. They just have to sell one meal to cover the salary per hour.

Salaries aren’t the only costs! Go back to school.

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me those businesses will just pass on those higher labor costs in the prices of their food and then the cycle begins all over again. Fast food preparation is unskilled labor.

I think it's a good thing. The whole thing about food businesses having thin margins and acting like they are all going to shut down tomorrow is an urban myth. If that were true, why would anyone even want to open a food establishment? But in reality, there's a new one opening every day! Pay your people a living wage. Increase the price and while you are at it, also get rid of tips to offset the price increase.

You complain about the homeless people but don't want people to be able to afford housing in a state with one of the highest cost of living.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems to me those businesses will just pass on those higher labor costs in the prices of their food and then the cycle begins all over again. Fast food preparation is unskilled labor.

Of course they will.. It’s all over the headlines now. Five guys a meal at five guys is $25 now. A McDonald’s value meal is about $12. Fast food is starting to become a luxury.

For these prices they should be paying $20+ an hour. They just have to sell one meal to cover the salary per hour.

Another (or the same) poster who doesn't understand basic economics.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems to me those businesses will just pass on those higher labor costs in the prices of their food and then the cycle begins all over again. Fast food preparation is unskilled labor.

Not a bad thing to reduce fast food consumption. And there's enough room in the labor market that relatively unskilled labor can get another job.
Then again I haven't eaten from a fast food restaurant in 30 years so my opinion doesn't really matter.

You completely missed the point of OP. Sure fast food isn’t healthy but it isn’t going away anytime soon. No one puts a gun to these workers heads and forces them to work for that pay (unless perhaps they are illegal aliens) . If they don’t like the pay move on and let the market decide but govt mandating minimum wage by law will only exacerbate the inflation problem.

It’s actually the opposite. It helps inflation. If you increase the money rolling through your community it decreases inflation.

Minimum wage workers spend their money, which goes to someone who will s as Leo spend their money, and so on and so on

Giving money to rich people goes into the market or saving and doesn’t help the economy.

Mathis is why BBB helped stop inflation l

Oh wow… the reply is quite something. Please go study basic economics and stop watching CNBC.

Right? I literally reread the PPs response thinking I had to have read incorrectly.

I don’t care. Even my teen knows better now than ordering fast food - he chooses a “normal” restaurant (okay unless it’s Popeyes….)
The less fast food there is, the better

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in CA. It’ll be a bonanza for our teenagers with part-time jobs! They make good money!

Wow…a Californian posting on DCUM. How’s those 14% state income taxes you voted for ?

A different Californian here but I work very few hours so I get a tax refund! Those s*ckers are paying for me lol