It is July 2024 and the minimum wage has remained stagnant at $7.25/hour since 2009. It's why I stand by this comment I made some time ago:
"I’m good with my taxes subsidizing welfare benefits for people who can’t afford food. I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay living wages."
The ultra wealthy have waged class warfare on working people, and it is literally killing us. Here are the receipts and here's how we stop it: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/class-warfare-is-decimating-working
Qasim Rashid, Esq. /
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