What are your thoughts about the minimum wage increase?
Economics: What are the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage in the US?
How many US citizens work for a minimum wage as of beginning of 2016? In the US, rather than raise the minimum wage, why don't we just have laws to lower the cost of living? Has the minimum wage ever been a living wage? Were minimum wages ever intended to be a living wage? If there were a maximum wage, would it lead to higher employment? Can you live on minimum wage? Should the minimum wage be a "learning wage" or a "living wage"? Why? If the minimum wage was increased to $15, how much extra revenue will the government earn per year in payroll taxes? What would wages look like if there was no minimum wage? What is it like to live on minimum wage in New York City? Are unskilled wages in the US depressed by the influx of illegal workers? Can a city mandate a higher minimum wage if the company receives a State or Federal incentive, tax break, or benefit? What amount of unskilled wage suppression is happening currently due to illegal immigration? How can I live on a minimum wage? If I currently make $15 an hour in California (min wage $10 an hour) and the minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour, is my work devalued? What would happen if there was no minimal wage? What is the minimum wage in the state of South Carolina? What are the pros and cons of subsidies? Why is the take home salary on 100,000 gross so low in the U.S.? What is the minimum wage in India? What is minimum wage in South Carolina? What is the minimum salary to survive in us? What's the youth unemployment rate in the US? In spite of the Equal Pay Act 1963, why do we still have a gender wage gap in the US? How can we change this? Why is inflation pretty low in the USA despite unemployment being pretty low as well as loose U.S. monetary policy? What is wage employment? What are the solution to the problems of calculating national income? Why is the US allowing in so many immigrants when there is high unemployment in the nation? What non-economic factors affect income distribution in the US? Is the wage gap real or not?