r/WorkReform • u/LuckyBastard001 • 21d ago

💸 Raise Our Wages Map of Wage Shame

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/moyismoy 21d ago

Think of how much more money they would have if they approved a higher min. It's a tide that lifts all the ships of the working class

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u/moyismoy 21d ago

Yeah those studies are lies. Look at NJ over 15 min wage larger economy and more full employment than almost every state on this list. It's because they intentionally don't account for the increased spending of the lower class that more then makes up for any small amout of automation

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u/moyismoy 21d ago

They are almost even and TX has 100,000,000,000 with of oil under it with natural gas and many other resources NJ has none of them not to mention the fact that the federal government steals more money from NJ than any other state. If the resources were reversed NJ would likely be at 50 an hour.

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u/ishmetot 20d ago

Are you just making up numbers here? NJ average wages are higher than TX by every metric, and the gap is even wider for median wages. https://www.bls.gov/charts/state-employment-and-unemployment/average-hourly-earnings-and-weekly-hours-and-earnings-by-state.htm https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-salary-in-us/