We have to raise the minimum wage. When I had my first real job working maintenance at Brookshire Knitting Mills, the minimum wage was $1.25 per hour and a candy bar cost a nickel. Now the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour and a smaller candy bar cost $1.80. The candy bar has gone up to sixteen times what it was. If the minimum wage had followed the candy bar index it would be $20 per hour. Even if we do not match the candy bar index, the minimum wage has to go up. No one who works full time should have to rely on government assistance.
The federal minimum wage hasn’t increased in a decade, but the prices of everything else has.
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