ThatDude30
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I understand that minimum wage only accounts for a small percentage of the US workforce. What about the 1.5 million people who earned less that minimum wage last year? What about the people who make $7.26 which is technically more than minimum wage and not included in the percent of minimum wage in the US workforce? What about the people who make more than minimum wage but not quite enough? If you add all those numbers together you will get a higher percentage and total number of people.
Send those people our way. We need them. The US is short over 30,000 drivers industry can't find. Some places will not only train you, but pay you while you learn. Once licensed, you only have to work for that company for a year under contract. After that, you have a promising career where destiny is within your grasp.
Right now our roads are loaded with foreigners. They are driving 75,000 lbs vehicles and can't even read English. They are here because Americans won't take these jobs. Industry has to do something to fill the void. I'm sure they would love to hire Americans, but can't find enough of them that want to work.
Truck driving is good money, most truck drivers make more than enough to cover their cost of living.
My point is this. If your annual required amount to cover your cost of living expenses( Rent, utilities, food, gas, basic human needs) is $20,606 and that is not including a car payment, car insurance, any other debt, and you only make $15,080 a year before taxes and you bring home roughly $13,926 after taxes, that's about $6,680 you still need to be able cover your living expenses.
They are even saying that the middle class is dying out and one of the biggest reasons why the middle class is shrinking is because their pay checks are staying about the same while the cost of living continues to rise steadily.
So its ok for the minimum wage to stay the same and not be enough to cover cost of living, but of for the cost of living and inflation continues to rise steadily? Everyone saying o is the minimum wage raises then companies will have to raise their cost for products and services. But its ok when companies raising their cost of products and services and the cost of living without the minimum wage increasing?