In the United States of America, it is $7.25 an hour, and has been since 2007. Minimum wage can be set by states individually, but those that don’t have their own opt for the federal minimum. Such a wage was already too low to live on when it was set nearly 17 years ago, but today, $7.25 will buy you a toothpick and a slice of pickle.
What the fuck kind of a monster do you have to be to think $7.25 is worth anything-I mean, uh, um, sorry, uh, I mean, what would be the process needed to increase that?
Pretty much like any other law, it would need to be a bill that could pass the House and the Senate, and be signed by the President.
The issue is that most Republican leaders have, for decades, opposed an increase, insisting that it would lead to job losses, business closures, and higher prices being passed along to consumers.
Given that, for such a bill to pass, it’d require not only Democratic control of Congress and the presidency, but given the Senate’s filibuster rule, it’d take a 60-seat Democratic majority in the Senate, which won’t happen any time soon.
Any answer beyond the above would likely take us out of Factual Questions.
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While the core question of the OP is factual, it’s also trivial. And most of the body of the OP is debative, on what the minimum wage should be. Decide whether you want a factual question about the process for passing a law, or a debate about what the minimum wage should be, and then post a thread that’s just that, in the appropriate forum.