In policy proposals posted to her website, Harris called for an increase in the overall minimum wage and for the end of the subminimum wage for tipped workers.

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    3 months ago

    It won’t be enough, it never will

    I’m old enough to remember Obama raising the federal contractor wage to $10.10/hr and conservatives absolutely melting down. Shortly thereafter, we got a slew of state laws that forbade individual cities from raising the minimum wage. And then we got a vicious crackdown on migrant workers, on the grounds that they were “stealing jobs”.

    I’m guessing Georgia and Wyoming still have a lesser minimum because it just wasn’t worth the effort to change the laws.

    Wyoming, in particular, is just warmed over feudalism. You either work for your O&G overlords as roughnecks and earn a better-than-Idaho standard of living or you work in the service sector as the servant class to the out-of-state roughnecks or you just exist as a landless vagabond hoping to survive the next winter.

    Plus there are a few thousand bougie failkids living the high life in Jackson Hole on permanent vacation.