Liittovaltion minimipalkka on alhaisin palkka, jolla työnantajat voivat maksaa työntekijöilleen. Vuodesta 24 heinäkuu 2009 Yhdysvaltain liittovaltion minimipalkka on asetettu $ 7.25 per tunti. Vuonna 2014 presidentti Obama ehdotti nostaa liittovaltion vähimmäispalkkaa $ 10.10 ja sitomalla sen inflaatioindeksin. Liittovaltion vähimmäispalkkaa koskee kaikkia liittovaltion työntekijöiden myös niitä, jotka työskentelevät sotilastukikohtien, kansallispuistoja ja veteraanit työskentelee hoitokodeissa.
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Mitä mieltä olet ’elämisen palkka’ käsitteestä, jossa vähimmäispalkka perustuu perustarpeiden kustannuksiin alueellasi verrattuna tasaiseen maanlaajuiseen palkkaan?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Uskotko, että minimipalkan korottaminen voi vaikuttaa palvelun tai tuotteiden laatuun, kun yritykset yrittävät leikata kustannuksia muualla?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Miten korkeampi minimipalkka voi vaikuttaa paikkakuntaasi, erityisesti alueilla, joilla monet työskentelevät minimipalkkatyössä?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Mitä haasteita teini-ikäisten mielestäsi saattaa olla osa-aikatöiden löytämisessä, jos työnantajien joutuisi maksamaan korkeampaa vähimmäispalkkaa?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Jos lähtötason palkat olisivat korkeammat, muuttaisiko se päätöstäsi mennä yliopistoon tai valita tietyn uran?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Kuvittele, jos suosikkipienyrityksesi joutuisi maksamaan työntekijöilleen enemmän; luuletko, että se muuttaisi heidän toimintatapojaan tai tarjoamiaan palveluja?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Miten arvelet vähimmäispalkan nostamisen vaikuttavan säännöllisesti ostamiesi tavaroiden, kuten ruoan, vaatteiden tai viihteen, hintoihin?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Voitko kertoa henkilökohtaisen kokemuksen, jossa enemmän ansaitseminen olisi merkittävästi parantanut sinun tai toisen hyvinvointia ja miten se vaikutti sinuun?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Oletko koskaan tuntenut, että sinun tai jonkun tuttusi työstä maksetaan vähemmän kuin työ oli sen arvoista, ja mitä pitäisit oikeudenmukaisena palkkana?
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
Miten elämäsi muuttuisi, jos ensimmäisestä työpaikastasi maksaisit huomattavasti enemmän korotetun minimipalkan vuoksi?
@gjp1024v4Y
only if those receiving the new wage understand the consequences of paying for their own insurance and other benefits now paid for by employers...including their half of social security as do all self employed workers.
@2JMLJVV4v4Y
I support a sliding minimum wage based on location or profession.
@2JMLBV74v4Y
Maybe...but this is NOT the solution, but this may help for the short term...and I would suggest that the increase targeted to specific industry's and firm of a size exceeding a certain threshold
@2JM4WJJ4v4Y
Leave it up to the business world. Fair companies will get good workers. Get the government out of our lives.
@2JLGNVC4v4Y
No. The government should step out of price controls/subsidies and allow the economy to be an economy truly based in capitalism.
@2JL6ZRV4v4Y
The system is rigged anyway, arguing over these listed points is only keeping the middle class down.
@2JL2RFB4v4Y
NO, doing that will certainly kill a lot of businesses.
Those jobs are never meant to be homestead supporting jobs. We don't need immigrants coming in to fill these type of jobs either. We do however need to be able to get public transportation to where minimum wage workers can get to those jobs that can not afford cars with high property taxes and high cost insurance. (Ever notice how many of these insurance companies have high dollar television ads? I'm fed up with Geckos and Flo, aren't you?) $4.00 a gallon for gas didn't help either.
@2JKYYLY4v4Y
yes, and make it dependent on living situation (age, number of dependents, rent costs etc.)
@2JKYWNC4v4Y
stop the mass importation of foreign workers, this will raise the wages at the bottom
@2JKYS7N4v4Y
No but corporations with more than 10% of their workforce eligible for government assistance should pay a tax penalty
@2JKXPKH4v4Y
minimum wage is not meant to be a living wage...it provides entry level opportunities that would not otherwise exist.
@2JKWXTL4v4Y
We should adjust and raise the minimum wage but we should also address that even starting salaries have not risen with inflation over the last 20 years.
@2JKVP6L4v4Y
Yes, and maybe there would be a way to offer certificate programs or other higher education to those who are interested, using some of the added income tax to help subsidize them.
@2JKQRV64v4Y
Society has an obligation to support each person to live a life worthy of living as defined by each such person
@2JKMXPQ4v4Y
Living wage for people over a certain age. Businesses would not be able to fire people though as they age just for getting older.
Leave the minimum wage alone, but require companies to limit outsourcing, and to produce within the U.S.
@2JKBM7F4v4Y
Yes. While this is a short term solution to a problem that is much more systemic. Modern economics had reached a stalemate with technology and the need for scarcity has become nothing more than ploy to continue to consolidate power
@2JK9WSH4v4Y
money should be directed to job training and creating better jobs
@heinrich4v4Y
Yes, but W Buffet recently made a very good point that adjusting income tax credits could have a more powerful and positive impact
@2JK7PTZ4v4Y
Let free market handle the payment range but have a set standard to ensure safety
@2JJX8VF4v4Y
Replace minimum wage and welfare benefits with a Guaranteed Basic Income for all Americans.
@2JJN3674v4Y
Yes, and place caps on price increases relative to the wage increase
The minimum wage should have a C.O.L.A. built into it and that would solve the problem. The democrats use it constantly as a hammer at election time then never do anything about it anyway.
@2JJJB7B4v4Y
Yes and eatablish a maximum wage as well.
First get our currency back on the Gold Standard to secure inflation, than set a minimum wage according to the value of gold.
@NNF34W4v4Y
Minimum wage is not relevant to anything. You are worth what you bring to the workplace. If I choose to have a starting wage of $2.50 per hour and no one applies I will have to raise the wage until I get to a number where I have sufficient applicants to fill the openings. Minimum wage jobs are entry level, they are not now or ever have been intended to support a family on. They are intended for youth as a learning foundation of what is needed regarding job skills, attitude, commitments, work ethic etc. to move to the levels above. Case in point - If I owned a McDonalds franchise I would pay… Lue lisää
@NKDHFZ4v4Y
There should be two minimum wage levels set, one for smaller independent businesses and for multinational businesses. Smaller businesses can pay the present amount (ex. $8.00) or raise a new floor level to ($9.00). On the other hand, multinational businesses and companies would have to pay at least, for example $9.50 or $10.00.
@NJDZZ94v4Y
The issue is the maximum wage, not the minimum. Companies need to distribute profit not only to shareholders, but to employees in the form of increased wages.
@M34PRX4v4Y
Before we talk about raising the minimum wage, taxes for the job providers must be lowered significantly (both on the state and federal levels)and all unnecessary regulations should be eliminated. If that is done, more jobs will be created because the more money the job providers have, the more jobs they can create, the better able existing businesses will be to expand, more businesses can be more easily established thus bringing in more jobs and opportunities; producing a more competitive environment which would provided businesses and corporations to offer better services, and a greater… Lue lisää
@LHRHCK4v4Y
Yes, because we have people starving on the streets because they don't get paid enough.