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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 4678387" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>By the time you pay for child care, rent, utilities, transportation working a minimum wage job, you end up still needing SNAP to buy food and Medicaid if you have serious medical problems. Bacha says that raising the minimum wage would encourage people to work, yet you want to keep it the same and expect people to work, work, work, and never get ahead, and STILL need federal help for food and medical care. Walmart and McDonalds get cheap labor, and the taxpayer supports their employees because we don&#039;t want them starving and sick. Raising minimum wage would REDUCE dependence on federal government and make EMPLOYERS pay enough to keep their employees alive. Just in SNAP benefits alone, the government would save billions because increased earnings would lower or end eligibility. Why you want to keep wages low is beyond understanding. The only people a low minimum wage helps is employers.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 4678387, member: 60252"] By the time you pay for child care, rent, utilities, transportation working a minimum wage job, you end up still needing SNAP to buy food and Medicaid if you have serious medical problems. Bacha says that raising the minimum wage would encourage people to work, yet you want to keep it the same and expect people to work, work, work, and never get ahead, and STILL need federal help for food and medical care. Walmart and McDonalds get cheap labor, and the taxpayer supports their employees because we don't want them starving and sick. Raising minimum wage would REDUCE dependence on federal government and make EMPLOYERS pay enough to keep their employees alive. Just in SNAP benefits alone, the government would save billions because increased earnings would lower or end eligibility. Why you want to keep wages low is beyond understanding. The only people a low minimum wage helps is employers. [/QUOTE]

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