I am strongly opposed to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
For example, what happens to the person who is making $15 per hour now? He may have taken the initiative to take extra vocational or educational courses to make himself more valuable to his employer, and can be proud of his achievements, only now to be making minimum wage. And much the same can be said for the person making $16, $18, $20 per hour. Fifteen dollars per hour comes to slightly over $30,000 per year for full time work. The starting salary for teachers in some states is less than that.
How would you feel if you had a college degree, some student loans, one of the most important jobs in the country, and when you go into a McDonald’s see that the kid behind the counter flipping burgers is making more money than you?
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Nikki McComsey, owner of Gather Mountain Blooms, points to pots in a green house located inside the barn that she is growing flowers for her flower farm at Venetucci Farm in Security on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. McComsey is leasing a portion of the farm to grow a variety of flowers and will be managing the property for weddings and events including the Fall Festival. Contamination of the Widefield aquifer, which was saturated with perfluorinated compounds originating from Peterson Air Force base firefighting foam, forced the farm to stop selling edible goods in 2016. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Nikki McComsey, owner of Gather Mountain Blooms, points to pots in a green house located inside the barn that she is growing flowers for her flower farm at Venetucci Farm in Security on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. McComsey is leasing a portion of the farm to grow a variety of flowers and will be managing the property for weddings and events including the Fall Festival. Contamination of the Widefield aquifer, which was saturated with perfluorinated compounds originating from Peterson Air Force base firefighting foam, forced the farm to stop selling edible goods in 2016. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
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