• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Minimum wage shouldn’t ever be a specific amount, it should be a percentage tied to some other economic metric, so that as inflation or cost of living rises, wages increase with it as well. This BS of having to wait for out-of-touch millionaire Congress members to approve of minimum wage increases is ridiculous.

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      2 months ago

      Meanwhile, Congress has raised their own pay multiple times since they raised the minimum wage back in 2009.

      Actually, looking into it, it seems that they gave themselves an automatic annual pay raise back in the ethics reforms act of 1989! Fucking assholes.

      https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/97-615.html

      “The automatic annual adjustment for Members of Congress is determined by a formula using a component of the Employment Cost Index (ECI),…”

      “…This adjustment formula was established by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989.”