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<blockquote data-quote="eats packages" data-source="post: 3562234" data-attributes="member: 68137"><p>There is a caveat to simply raising the minimums in our current setting. I would argue raises definitely are "better than nothing" but there is still a larger issue at hand:</p><p></p><p>The big two: Housing and pharmaceutical groups, who together can take away a huge chunk or all of a persons paycheck, can and will raise rent and medicine prices in-line with minimum wage increases.</p><p>They would not even suffer from a wage increase, checking on rental homes and patenting pills requires an extremely small workforce to manage.</p><p></p><p>So limiting the gains of these two groups with publicly invested, non-profit housing and medicine groups (*cough* single payer) might solve much more of our poverty issues in the US than simply raising the minimum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eats packages, post: 3562234, member: 68137"] There is a caveat to simply raising the minimums in our current setting. I would argue raises definitely are "better than nothing" but there is still a larger issue at hand: The big two: Housing and pharmaceutical groups, who together can take away a huge chunk or all of a persons paycheck, can and will raise rent and medicine prices in-line with minimum wage increases. They would not even suffer from a wage increase, checking on rental homes and patenting pills requires an extremely small workforce to manage. So limiting the gains of these two groups with publicly invested, non-profit housing and medicine groups (*cough* single payer) might solve much more of our poverty issues in the US than simply raising the minimum. [/QUOTE]
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