Over the last two days users from the social media service Mastodon have started a campaign which has raised over $250,000 for VP Harris. User Heidi Li Feldman started the modest campaign on ActBlue two days ago, with a humble goal of one thousand...
I won’t donate to a political party or politician who hasn’t done something significant to raise the federal minimum wage.
Sadly, that’s both of them.
Put the money in your investments instead (stocks, bonds, ETF’s, etc) as no matter who we elect, your investments will get some measure of representation as our elected leaders continue to use their confidential briefings in order to make stock moves AND investment companies have been deemed too big to fail.
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can
I said ‘something significant’. Broken promises and pledges aren’t significant. We’ve had almost two decades of broken promises and pledges on the federal minimum wage, and now people can be legally paid less than cup of Starbucks per hour in 2/3 of the US states.
If Harris were to have negotiated a $15 minimum wage with Republicans but to do so had to give up the EPA. Would that earn your favor?
Let us assume that giving up the EPA is too much, do you see a world where the Republicans agree to anything while getting anything you are OK with giving up?
Perhaps you and the Republicans share some common wedge issue, do you think you would get any Democratic support for a bill that makes that trade?
Minimum wage is currently a partisan issue, a party that believes it should be increased and a party who doesn’t think it should exist. Just keeping it is as is is a negotiation.
I have a rule.
I won’t donate to a political party or politician who hasn’t done something significant to raise the federal minimum wage.
Sadly, that’s both of them.
Put the money in your investments instead (stocks, bonds, ETF’s, etc) as no matter who we elect, your investments will get some measure of representation as our elected leaders continue to use their confidential briefings in order to make stock moves AND investment companies have been deemed too big to fail.
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can. For instance
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/08/fact-sheet-vice-president-harris-announces-action-to-raise-wage-standards-over-time-for-more-than-one-million-construction-workers/
She has advocated for $15/hr minimum wage and joined protesting and striking workers in that push before
https://apnews.com/general-news-united-states-presidential-election-6a566fe8785a4ae5aa7963fd3bc5166f
I said ‘something significant’. Broken promises and pledges aren’t significant. We’ve had almost two decades of broken promises and pledges on the federal minimum wage, and now people can be legally paid less than cup of Starbucks per hour in 2/3 of the US states.
Let’s engage in a thought experiment.
If Harris were to have negotiated a $15 minimum wage with Republicans but to do so had to give up the EPA. Would that earn your favor?
Let us assume that giving up the EPA is too much, do you see a world where the Republicans agree to anything while getting anything you are OK with giving up?
Perhaps you and the Republicans share some common wedge issue, do you think you would get any Democratic support for a bill that makes that trade?
Minimum wage is currently a partisan issue, a party that believes it should be increased and a party who doesn’t think it should exist. Just keeping it is as is is a negotiation.
False.
It’s 100% a bipartisan issue. Both have agreed that the status quo is a-okay, judging by their actions on the issue over the last near-20 years.
Raising the wage of 1 million contractors is not just words. Yes, we do need more, but don’t it’s certainly not nothing
You’re so right.
I’m just going to ignore that they pretended the parliamentarian’s word was law, which the Republicans did not do when Trump’s tax scam was passed.