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but it isn't enough

got my first job in a lumber yard in '88 at $12hr (my 2 bed apt was $400, smokes were $1 a pack, and gas was $.99 per gal) and when i quit a few years later i was making $21hr
it's not nearly enough and it's insane that young people are expected to get anywhere making what i did 35 years ago
Walmart's problem isn't just the wages, it's their manipulation of hours. They give just enough hours at inconsistent times to limit an employee from getting a second job, while not providing enough hours to make an employee eligible for health insurance. Until there's more regulation on this issue, or consumer accountability, then all walmart has to do is reduce employees by another one or two hours to make this wage increase functionally mean nothing. >

They also get rid of positions altogether basically every 6 months. When I worked there they were chronically under staffed and most of the staff they do have are useless, or at least act like it, and I can't really blame them. >

Why would you bust your ass for Walmart? Like even if you need the job, there is zero incentive. >

This is good news in that it represents a step in the right direction, but it isn't enough.

In my Inaugural, I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. 

FDR