minimum wage – Waiting for Winter

studentsforbernie:

Sanders supports a $15 minimum wage to bring a massive amount of American workers out of poverty. As it stands now minimum wage working 40 hours a week brings home $15,080 before taxes. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics over 3.3 million people make minimum wage or below. That is barely enough to live, let alone live without applying for government assistance. Living life with so little disposable income is hard enough, but many people can’t even get that. The minimum wage in the United States is embarrassingly low and the number of people barely scraping by attempting to live off of it is embarrassingly high.

In fact many of these people work at corporations like Walmart and McDonalds who seemingly encourage their employees to apply for government programs in order to subsidize their living expenses. Instead of paying a living wage these companies bank off the American tax payer and their upper executives laugh to the bank while their employees are demonized and their quality of life drops. People working in food and retail are not the only ones who are hurting, in fact American manufacturing were probably hit the hardest. Some politicians claim they want to fix this problem, but only cracking down on the unscrupulous business practices of the largest corporations in the United States can solve this problem. Bernie Sanders is the only politician willing to crack down. Bernie Sanders 2016!