Proponents of the minimum wage often cite it as a tool to uplift people from poverty. While most of these people have good intentions, their economic ignorance crushes economies in some places.
Influenced by the idiotic idea that the state can lift people out of economic turmoil, many states and cities are enacting laws that increase the minimum wage for their area. Seattle is one of these places.
Supporters of the new minimum wage expected it to give the support needed for the poor to lift themselves out of poverty and no longer use the state’s services helping them.
What actually happened will shock you.
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GOOD.
Idiots
It’s just one Democommie failure after another.
why don’t YOU state the facts? ….because u don’t have a clue. ….a-h
I have a clue that you are an idiot
Why don’t you go back to letting Fox News think for you Sally
whining because the welfare roll didn’t drop enough? gotta find something to cry about I guess
duh.
no you are wrong. Full time daycare for one child is around $500 a month. Here in Idaho if a mother of one made $10 a hour, her child would no longer qualify for Medicaid or $#%&!@*istance with child care. So the mother would actually not be able to pay for basic needs even though she is making more money. They would have to raise minimum wage to like $20 a hour. What if she had three kids. Daycare would be around 1,200 to 1,500 what then?
Stacey,
Although the Affordable Care Act will give more low-income single mothers access to health insurance, nearly half of these families reside in states that have declined to expand their Medicaid programs and this needs to change.
Among the 23 states not currently expanding Medicaid, the average eligibility threshold remains very low at 49%.
Thing will need to chang for everyone but keeping the way thing are is not working for the whole of Americans.
This is something that we will have to agree to disagree on.