I started working in a grocery store about a year before the pandemic. I’ve seen prices of food double in some cases. My pay has only gone up $2 due to the minimum wage in my city increasing. $2 raise in almost 5 years. I can no longer afford to shop at the store I work at, it’s insane. I have no idea how this article can pretend things are remotely ok for the common person. I’m sure higher ups/managers are just fine, but not the rest of us.
Wages at the bottom end of the scale haven’t been ok since Reagan decided to break things. Biden hasn’t managed to fix this; he was the moderate candidate who wasn’t willing to break the billionaires. And even if he had been, at no time during his Presidency have we had a Congress which was willing to go back to taxing the wealthiest at rates high enough to redistribute wealth back down the ladder.
The answer to that is under no circumstances to go choose somebody in a party whose core promise is to transfer even more wealth to the richest.
I started working in a grocery store about a year before the pandemic. I’ve seen prices of food double in some cases. My pay has only gone up $2 due to the minimum wage in my city increasing. $2 raise in almost 5 years. I can no longer afford to shop at the store I work at, it’s insane. I have no idea how this article can pretend things are remotely ok for the common person. I’m sure higher ups/managers are just fine, but not the rest of us.
Wages at the bottom end of the scale haven’t been ok since Reagan decided to break things. Biden hasn’t managed to fix this; he was the moderate candidate who wasn’t willing to break the billionaires. And even if he had been, at no time during his Presidency have we had a Congress which was willing to go back to taxing the wealthiest at rates high enough to redistribute wealth back down the ladder.
The answer to that is under no circumstances to go choose somebody in a party whose core promise is to transfer even more wealth to the richest.