Political Memes

Yea so that's the argument that people who don't agree with making a liveable wage give. In reality there is just a great group of people who are only eligible for minimum wage or close to minimum wage jobs. So a fair bit of adults that are even trying to support their children.

So I think we can all agree that especially if 2 parents are working 40 hours a week should be able to at least live a decent life in a Western country. And that's mainly in to question here. For teens you could always have a lower minimum wage until they're older. As they have in plenty countries.

Does this address your question properly?

I always figured minimum wage jobs were for people like teens who didn’t need to afford housing.

Nothing in min wage law adjusts your wages based on whether or not you're someone else's dependent.

Since when housing should be considered a luxury? If you make minimum wage you should be at least capable of buying a small modest house/apartment which is impossible nowadays...

How do you know teens don't need to afford housing? Many do.

"Supposed to be" in whose opinion?

It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, making his intentions pretty clear.