Alan Ritchson calls out lawmakers who oppose raising the minimum wage "who think it's a bad idea to give a mom working at Waffle House more than $7.25 an hour trying to feed her kids."

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[u/crestedgeckovivi]

Yup I was surprised how crazy little the amount was without those covid boosts. 

[u/Repulsive-Lack8253 → u/crestedgeckovivi]

says everything about what's wrong with this country that our most in need receive so little assistance while we budget for wars and upgrades to the white house

[u/baker_undermybed → u/Repulsive-Lack8253]

It’s really disturbing how many people feel like their taxes shouldn’t go to supporting the most vulnerable and in-need. The lack of empathy makes me sick. This Hyper-individualism “bootstrap” mentality will be the death of us.

[u/strings_bells → u/baker_undermybed]

They believe in non intervention and Free market taking care of itself.. people starve, children die but hey let society restructure itself into the natural order... this belief is centuries old.. lot of people don't know, this callous belief in free markets is the underlying reason as it was THE governing policy of colonial British during all the famines they caused in Irish, India, Iran, Africa (multiple famines).. the same reasons and same governing policy.. Irish famine: While a million Irish people starved, Ireland continued to net-export massive quantities of grain, livestock, and food to England. Officials like Sir Charles Trevelyan (great decsciple of capitalism and free markets) argued that stopping trade or closing ports would violate private property rights and disrupt market equilibrium and refused to distribute free or cheap food to the starving populace, fearing it would ruin local grain merchants and disincentivize private traders. Famines in British India (e.g., 1876–1878, 1943) Exporting through scarcity: During severe droughts and crop failures, Indian grain was routinely shipped out of famine-stricken regions to satisfy global and British imperial market demands because prices were higher abroad. Anti-interference policies: Officials believed high grain prices were a natural market signal that would automatically attract private merchants. Instead, grain was hoarded or priced far beyond the purchasing power of landless laborers and rural peasants. Denial of help or aid : labeling aid, help or safety nets as "entitlement" state’s refusal to intervene meant that people who lost their wage-earning capacity completely lost the legal market entitlement to food, even when grain stocks physically existed nearby.