Sen. Bernie Sanders: A $14/hr minimum wage 'is not going to do it' - Velshi - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

It has been well over a decade since there has been a federal minimum wage increase, even with the major jump in inflation and increase in cost of living. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont joins Ali Velshi to explain why despite the fact that companies like Walmart are raising their minimum wage, a $14 per hour rate is not going to cut it. “It is not too much to ask the wealthiest country on Earth where we have massive income and wealth inequality, people on top doing phenomenally well, to say that in America, if you're working 40 hours a week, you're not living in poverty. 14 bucks an hour is not going to do it.” - Aired on 01/29/2023.

[Backseat Driver]

1. Biden had that housing initiative, but housing and rentals are still increasing in our

"hot market" community. Our single 40 something daughter has been saving, but still can't beat the cash-offer investors and organized flipping companies on a desirable 3 bd; 2 bath; 2 car garage ranch (no steps). There is no way she'd afford a new build (450K-650K currently) where we could share our older years though her working salary is commendable and we could share the housing costs.

In 2006 we moved and rented a lovely 3 bd townhome for $945; 3 bd, 2.5 bath 1500 sq feet on two levels (a 15-step stringer to upper floor. We downsized to a 2bd, 2.5 bath unit. At age 75, the steps are getting edgy. We got our new lease rent notice yesterday. The new rent basis will be going up $200 this year to $1537 w/garage; dog fees, trash, pro-rated water, and a brand new $8 Rentistry charge to track on-time payments forward to the credit reporting agencies and the landlord's corporate choice of rental insurance, likely mandatory even if one pays for one's own rental insurance. We like to find a new place one of these days, sooner than later? Together, we make just under average SS and that leaves little regular disposable funds; mine is half his and he's working a FT 40 hrs big box retail job to foot our four or five usual monthly bills: cable/internet/landline bundle; electricity; transportation insurances including a gap health insurance for Medicare. I do the cells and food. I don't want to live in a crime-ridden area yet gun violence is growing everywhere nor have we the savings to have to split the costs of refurbishing high-cost kitchen/appliances, flooring, HVAC/HWTs, etc... Been there; done all that during the years we had better careers.

Any reasonable housing advice?

[wackadoo wabbit]

2. K & R ... n/t