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Rep. Barbara Lee weighs in on minimum wage, defends $50 idea

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/15/barbara-lee-minimum-wage/72611446007/

Too high. I'd make it $26/hour ties to the local cost of living, as the new Federal minimum wage.

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"Can you explain how that would be economically sustainable for small businesses?" the moderator asked.

"I know what worker productivity means, and that means that you have to make sure that your employees are taken care of and have a living wage," Lee said at the debate.

Surely the people who make the decisions about the economy would at least have studied economics at some time in their life, right? Right...? :marseyaware:

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it doesn't matter anyway economics is a meme "science"

AOC has an economics degree lmao

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Somehow I feel that AOC wouldn't be this stupid as to think this would even be a viable thing to sell yourself for an election, let alone enforce as an actual policy.

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