At my first job I was making $7.35 an hour. I worked as a farm hand. I got a second job in fast food to pay for school and there I made even less. 4 degrees later and a Molecular Biologist title, I will still tell you to this day the hardest job I have ever had was in fast food.
Increasing the minimum wage to $15 doesn’t invalidate or anything I have done education-wise. It’s only those who have never experienced poverty or the sheer panic of not being able to afford a bill or having had to worry about where you’d get your next meal that have an issue.
Working lower-income jobs has subjected us to mistreatment and degradation. People in these positions deserve far more than they receive currently. If anything, I wish everyone to be given a living wage as I should have been given when I was in college. Struggling is not living.
I think those who are against raising the minimum wage have just never had to struggle. There is no legitimate argument or reasoning against doing so.
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