Election 2024: Kamala Harris on NBC vows to double federal minimum wage to $15

And note that her wording was "at least $15", so she's signaling openness to doing more than that

Wait, doubling it -to- 15 dollars an hour? Holy shit, I knew it was bad, but that is insane. Ours is already starting to feel too low at 17.40 here in Canada, granted that is about the equivalent of around $12.50 USD. So it's lower than what she is proposing, maybe if she manages it, we'll be able to get ours up.

I'll believe it when I see it. Seems every candidate has promised this for as long as I've been following American politics and no one actually manages it.

$15/hr works out to be about 30k/yr. That's not enough to live on. We need a $30 minimum wage. It needs to be indexed to both inflation as well as congressional salary. If they get a raise, everyone gets a raise.

fight for 15 years late

Oh.

My minded automatically corrected that as "doubling from 15 to 30". Because that's what it needs to be, at least.

I can get a two dollar raise...

Well it's better than the FUCKING CONCENTRATION CAMP I'd get from the other guy

Name a more iconic duo than politicians and making promises that rely on the cooperation of other branches of government.

Good!

Now also link it to yearly inflation annually in December!

If the house and Senate approve. She can't just do it on her own

That's great!

Certain burger-flipping former presidents have legal fees to pay and this goes a LONG way to making due.

Heard this before. Democrats will encounter one tiny setback and give up until the next election cycle.

I believe all promises that are made within the last 30 days of an election!

This was literally her supposed signature issue when she was running with Biden.

She didn’t fight for it at all.

Surely we'll get it this time.

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I doubt many people make anywhere close to minimum, but no excuse not to raise it!

5-years ago? Yep, we had tons of clients paying rock bottom, or close enough. I'm not in the payroll business anymore, but the jobs my wife was looking at as a preschool teacher were $12+, and that job always pays shit. Walmart and Target start at $15, or more.

All this is a small town where you would expect small wages. I was in Manhattan in 1992 and was astounded at the prices. Ask my native friend how people survived on minimum wage. He looked at me funny and laughed, "Dude. No one gets minimum wage. $10 is as low as it goes."

Good news on one of those shit paying clients! They were really hurting and the new CEO turned everything around in a couple of years. At that time, they started paying $12, paying benefits and paying for education.

What the fuck is with that horrible picture jesus CHRIST

Doubling the federal minimum wage would be $14.50 not $15

Two words: Arms embargo.

Other than that, ask the Cheney's for some more advise on how to campaign.

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How out of touch do you need to be to offer something lower than Walmart's starting wage? And how many times have we heard this lie?

Hmmm....sounds a lot like vote buying.

I would love to see the Trump campaign vow to quadruple the minimum wage just to watch people on this site do their mental gymnastics to convince themselves that Trump doesn't have the power to do so, but Harris does.