Loading ...Up until 1971 the gov’t kept raising the minimum wage with was adequate. That process also kept all the other wages higher. I knew by 1975 it was over for wages. They stopped steadily raising then and started cheating on the inflation rates, or the CPI constantly under stated, then started outsourcing our jobs over seas. E
very problem that you can thing of is general wages are far too low. For example if the minimum wage was $50/hr, all the higher skilled people, using the minimum as a base would also make more money. However the extremely low minimum wage is hold all the others down too.