The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.
Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.
How can anyone live off of minimum wage?
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