September 6, 2019
Word: Raising the minimum wage
Bernie Sanders Here's a fact you don't hear too often: Half of America’s workers make less than $19 an hour. When we double the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15, we'll boost pay up the income ladder. That means workers making above $15 an hour—11.6 million of them—will also get raises.
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1865: 'Instead of the conservative motto, A fair day's wage for a fair day's work, we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, Abolition of the wage system' (Marx, Value, Price, and Profit).
1928: 'Earning a wage is a prison occupation' (Wages, DH Lawrence).
1965: Workers still 'don't realise that they can abolish the wages system' (Socialist Standard).
2019: $15/hour by 2024? (BS' Raise the Wage Act)
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