The LEGAL minimum wage is $7.25

I absolutely agree with this. As the younger generation enter the world it's becoming more and more realized that the average person has no way of living in this world. The price of everything is too high, college makes it difficult to secure a good job and the old dream of working your way up at a job is dead and has been for years due to the oldguard staying for so long. Action needs to be made before the country falls into another economic disaster.

Minimum wage jobs are for entry level, young, and new-to-the-workforce people. If you raise the minimum wage, in addition to hiking prices everywhere (employers will have to raise the prices of goods and services to afford their inflated emplyee costs thus leading to inflation for consumers), you will also be removing opportunities for young workers who are just learning work ethic and basic skills.

I agree, the legal minimum wage is way below what is needed to sustain a life in this economy, we have people overworking themselves or going homeless due to it. it needs to be changed.

Yes, I agree. $7.25 is NOT a livable wage, for anybody, period. It is ridiculous that people are always one missed paycheck away from homelessness or getting water, electricity, heat, etc cut off, but then barely have enough for other essentials and even for little recreational time for themselves or their families.

agreed, people are struggling as prices increase. bills and taxes are controlling people, and many people are unable to make a living without working white collar.

I agree that the minimum wage should be increased. The economy is bad right now and the prices are high, everything is expensive (housing, school, food). People from middle class, or middle lower class are living form check to check and that should not be like that at all. Now if the government don't want to increase the Minimum wage the government should at least provide better help or benefits the people, also making it more accessible in the way that provide translators and easy ways to register.

Current generations do not get paid enough and don't have enough money to have kids. Minimum wage is why the birth rate is down

I agree that $7.25 is extremely difficult to live on today. The cost of housing, food, and healthcare has gone up a lot while the federal minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009. Many people working full time still struggle to cover basic expenses, which shows why this issue keeps coming up in policy debates.

the minimum wage should go up because the food these days are also going up and it is making the people very hard to pay for groceries these days and it may be hard for them to eat some food.

I do agree with this comment because the rise in inflation in the last 10-20 years should also result in the rise of minimum wage so Americans have reasonable living standards.

I believe minimum wage should be raised due to the fcat that many people struggle even with having multiple jobs at once because inflation just increases.