Is this the right way to get to $15 an hour? | Letters
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Demonstrators rally at the Capitol in support of McDonald's workers on strike to be paid $15 per hour in 15 cities on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) [ JOSE LUIS MAGANA | AP ]
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| May 24
How do you get to a desired $15 per hour federal minimum wage without legislation? Step 1: Use a pandemic-caused recession to give people who are out of work the equivalent of nearly $15 per hour in unemployment benefits. Step 2: Continue to offer those benefits even after there are more job openings than people looking for work, thereby incentivizing the unemployed not to work for less than $15 per hour. Step 3: When employers canât fill positions, tell them to âpay more.â Totally brilliant strategy. In the interim, consumers only have to deal with poor service from understaffed companies and higher prices everywhere we go.