says $15 is just about the minimum wage to support the 2 adult household in Seattle, Washington.

This is now a real starter wage to build the old traditional American dream.

$7.25 and $10.10 are both too low anywhere for a family life even to start, unless of course you have 2 laborers in the family (making what we used to pay just 1 - and now Seattle has as a minimum wage).

Gee, what happened to the other half of our wages?

but I take every opportunity I can to post the following chart because it shows so clearly who is hoarding the $$$:




More here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

I am so tired of being a sliver on a pie chart.

over the next TEN (10) YEARS?????????????????


Why am I not impressed. Why do folks allow this? What a slap in the face and if you think that 15 dollars an hour in 2024 is impressive....it won't be. I felt the same why when the Maryland politicians were hand slapping over 10.10 in 2018. We are certainly easy to please.

I agree.

If things are as bad as they say (they are) then why not 10.10 in October 2014 and 15.00 in January 2015. I understand that it takes some time to redo the books and readjust the budget, but when things go up for us with goods and services, they NEVER give us a decade to "get used to the change"......HELL WITH THAT! Change it now and don't fuck with us which is what they are doing. I am so sorry to DUers for getting pissed but I am because the politicians will get titles like Bold, Caring, Humble, Honorable and that is all crap!

has always hedged on implementing these minimum wage increases.

Have to be incremental or it is inflationary for customers, job destruction, the bosses have to adjust their financial management and expectations...

When a program is implemented that pisses off everybody, you have successful legislation!

When you have a program that pisses off just the bosses...are we there yet?

Maybe not, but getting closer!

I've critiqued her enough for other things, but in this campaign, she was the one who got it kicked off and fought for it all the way through.

However as others have stated, it's not enough. We need a living wage based on the COL in each area and tied to the COL, so that that living wage goes up when the COL goes up. In addition to this, we need "job sharing" AT FULL PAY AND BENEFITS or some other mechanism, so that everybody who wants a job, HAS a job. After all, $15 per hour (or ANYTHING per hour) doesn't mean squat if you don't have a job. And this should be paid for by the capitalists out of profits instead of by raising prices.

And I don't want to hear about the poor corporations and their profit margin. No worker should worry about corporate profits because the corporations certainly won't worry about you having a roof over your head, food to eat for you and your kids, or clothes on your back.

After that, we need to take down the system so that we don't need to worry about this shit ever again.