Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez perfectly sums up our current wage system -- Daily Kos

In all of our United States of America, there is not one single state where the minimum wage is a living wage. Not one. The call to raise the minimum wage across the country to $15 an hour is not a solution; it is the least we can collectively do in order to recognize the labor that millions of Americans carry out on behalf of all of us. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pro-labor. On Monday, she tweeted out a perfect synthesis of what's wrong with our current concept of a minimum wage.
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