To cover living expenses in Hawaii, a single person would have to earn nearly $133,000.
  • SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world
    61·
    10 months ago

    You must have missed his point about minimum wage being only 1/3 of the lowest yearly income listed in the article. When it should, for all intents and purposes, be the minimum amount a full time worker would need for a living wage. And as FDR said,

    by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.