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Is this the right way to get to $15 an hour? | Letters
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Demonstrators rally at the Capitol in support of McDonald s workers on strike to be paid $15 per hour in 15 cities on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) [ JOSE LUIS MAGANA | AP ]
Published 3 hours ago | May 24
How do you get to a desired $15 per hour federal minimum wage without legislation? Step 1: Use a pandemic-caused recession to give people who are out of work the equivalent of nearly $15 per hour in unemployment benefits. Step 2: Continue to offer those benefits even after there are more job openings than people looking for work, thereby incentivizing the unemployed not to work for less than $15 per hour. Step 3: When employers canât fill positions, tell them to âpay more.â Totally brilliant strategy. In the interim, consumers only have to deal with poor service from understaff
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