They last increase in the Federal Minimum Wage was in 2009, when it was raised to $7.25. it’s only been raised twice since 1997, for a total of $2.10.
The original iPhone was released in 2007. So while smart phones have become so ubiquitous that every person requires a phone just to navigate modern society, the wages required to afford both the phone and a monthly plan have not kept up.
We now have to purchase and carry a device that did not exist 20 years ago, and yet even minimum wage workers are expected to have a cell phone to communicate with work, get their schedules, etc.
And now their complaining that we aren’t coughing up an extra $2000 every year?
They last increase in the Federal Minimum Wage was in 2009, when it was raised to $7.25. it’s only been raised twice since 1997, for a total of $2.10.
The original iPhone was released in 2007. So while smart phones have become so ubiquitous that every person requires a phone just to navigate modern society, the wages required to afford both the phone and a monthly plan have not kept up.
We now have to purchase and carry a device that did not exist 20 years ago, and yet even minimum wage workers are expected to have a cell phone to communicate with work, get their schedules, etc.
And now their complaining that we aren’t coughing up an extra $2000 every year?