The Family Budget Calculator estimates the resources families need to make ends meet across the United States. This report explains how policymakers, employers, and advocates can set meaningful living wage standards using the calculator.
Humbly, I have to disagree that a minimum wage should be a survival wage.
If a job is important enough to society to actually do it, it should pay enough to live a good life, not just living to work. And of course this would be based on the local economy and not a national minimum.
I don’t believe anyone should have to forgo basic comforts (small trip, eating out, etc) or pursuit of personal goals (like raising a family) in their one life just because they don’t have other employment opportunities - something not necessarily within their control at all.
Nobody asked to be here, and we really need to stop acting like they have a choice but to participate. Let’s give people some dignity. If a job is worth doing, it’s worth a living wage, full stop.
Humbly, I have to disagree that a minimum wage should be a survival wage.
If a job is important enough to society to actually do it, it should pay enough to live a good life, not just living to work. And of course this would be based on the local economy and not a national minimum.
I don’t believe anyone should have to forgo basic comforts (small trip, eating out, etc) or pursuit of personal goals (like raising a family) in their one life just because they don’t have other employment opportunities - something not necessarily within their control at all.
Nobody asked to be here, and we really need to stop acting like they have a choice but to participate. Let’s give people some dignity. If a job is worth doing, it’s worth a living wage, full stop.