specialk on 06 July 2017
| TallSilhouette said: Any job worth hiring someone full time to do should be worth paying them a livable wage for. If not, the job should not exist (at least not FT). If a company can't afford to pay its core employees livable wages, that company does not deserve to be in business. |
I very much like this sentiment, but "livable wage" will always be a sticking point.
I waited tables when I was in college. It worked out to about $26K a year if I worked full time. That was plenty for a single guy with no responsibilities.
That probably wouldn't be considered "livable" for a single mom with two kids though. Theoretically, that's what welfare is for.
Such a person would qualify for medicaid or generous ACA subsidies for healthcare though (if healthcare wasn't offered through their job). She'd probably get WIC, and possibly low income housing subsidies.
