2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dem Platform Committee Votes Down $15 Min Wage Amendment [View all]CaptainSensible
(35 posts)I think you're confusing LIVING WAGE with MIN WAGE. Certainly people should earn a living wage. Earning a living wage would indeed ease a lot of challenge of stepping out on your own when first leaving home or having graduated from college. Even in a case involving say, a forty year old male should earn a LIVING WAGE. Right?
A single adult living in Monterrey Cry, CA LIVING WAGE is $12.28. This is a fairly expense place to live actually with Pebble Beach, Carmel and Monterrey.
BTW, I'm using the MIT LIVING WAGE interactive map, developed by the creator of the Living Wage concept, Amy Glassmeier.
This wage calculator actually reveals a much wider scope than I expected with many locations falling below the $9.50.
I'm wondering if the proposal to the DNC Platform Commission based the $15 hr figure on a LIVING WAGE number, and if so to which location was the factor attached? Was it intended to factor a single adult, a mother and child? Just wanting to understand the disconnect if one exists.