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That's great!
Certain burger-flipping former presidents have legal fees to pay and this goes a LONG way to making due.
Wait, doubling it -to- 15 dollars an hour? Holy shit, I knew it was bad, but that is insane. Ours is already starting to feel too low at 17.40 here in Canada, granted that is about the equivalent of around $12.50 USD. So it's lower than what she is proposing, maybe if she manages it, we'll be able to get ours up.
It varies by province and at the federal level in Canada, 17.40 is for BC specifically, Alberta and Saskatchewan are the lowest at 15, Nunavut is the highest at 19 and it's 17.30 for jobs under federal jurisdiction.
And note that her wording was "at least $15", so she's signaling openness to doing more than that
Good, because "fight for $15" has been going on so long that the real number to regain parity with what minimum wage used to be is a lot higher than that by now.
I'll believe it when I see it. Seems every candidate has promised this for as long as I've been following American politics and no one actually manages it.
She's yet to pull out "I will lower taxes!" card that's been over-promised. "I will lower inflation rates!" card that's been over-promised.
So many empty promises from any politician that has ever said those.
They'll blame someone other than their ineptitude in governing
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Oh.
My minded automatically corrected that as "doubling from 15 to 30". Because that's what it needs to be, at least.
You're about 5 - 10 years behind, maybe longer, Harris.
Is this an argument as to why we shouldn't raise the minimum wage?
And they'll STILL walk it back the moment some unelected clerk with only ceremonial authority objects. If not before THAT even happens.
They always start negotiations at "nowhere near good enough" and make tons of concessions to Republicans from there.
Even the GOP becoming a literal fascist party that never negotiates in good faith hasn't changed their toxic inadequacy and insistence on bipartisanship being the highest political virtue possible.
Heard this before. Democrats will encounter one tiny setback and give up until the next election cycle.
Two words: Arms embargo.
Other than that, ask the Cheney's for some more advise on how to campaign.
Did you post this in the wrong thread, or did lemmy do the thing where you post in one thread and it winds up in another?
And yes, there needs to be an arms embargo. Unless the intended thread was about Ukraine. Ukraine needs the support we're wasting on Netanyahu.
The Russian trolls seem to be doing overtime now that the election is getting close.
How out of touch do you need to be to offer something lower than Walmart's starting wage? And how many times have we heard this lie?
The headline is a little misleading, she said "at least $15" not that she wants it necessarily at exactly $15/hr and no more
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/22/election-2024-kamala-harris-to-be-interviewed-on-nbc/