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Warpy

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10. Stagnant wages + inflation equal a fall in purchasing power

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #8)

Thu Feb 25, 2021, 09:38 PM

Feb 2021

I love these Republicans testifying against the minimum wage increase because, golly heck, they were able to work their way through school on the minimum wage in the early 70s.

Meanwhile, the cost of a state university has gone up to eleven times what it was, while the minimum wage has barely doubled.

I think you have to be congenitally unable to do basic math in order to be a Republican.

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Its not that wages have fallen in purchasing power it is that the wages have been stagnant. cstanleytech Feb 2021 #8

Stagnant wages + inflation equal a fall in purchasing power Warpy Feb 2021 #10

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