The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that lowers the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 an hour for teen workers
http://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/legislature-passes-minimum-wage-decrease-for-teen-workers/
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Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works · 114 pts · 201d
Voting Republican has consequences.
If you think your kids hated you before, let's see how they like you now.
Nednarb44@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 201d
What the fuck
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 201d
You see, teens aren't people. They're animals owned by their parents. So some of the money goes to animal care costs.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 201d
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 201d
Hell yeah. Nice to here some of your generation being sick of this shit.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 201d
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 201d
Lol no wonder. Read it wrong. I've done community activism in my city and the young people don't seem to have that bite in them. Guess I just got happy for a second.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 201d
expatriado@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 201d
that's bad, my state only follows federal minimum wage, so that's $7.25 for everybody
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 201d
Meanwhile, the additional costs spared and their consequences for livehood:
If you're a normal/poor person: scraping by -> can't even live paycheck to paycheck anymore
If you're somewhat affluent: okay -> scraping by
If you're a billionnaire: excellent -> excellent (nothing changes)
To be part of the 1%, in the United States you'll need about $USD 6 million. Though living off from money only (i.e. without wage labour) is already "achievable" by $2 million, you then make about $100k a year with a 5% interest if in stocks.
All ye who are not part of the 1%, are the proletariat. Ye who depend on the oligarch have nothing to lose, but a world to gain.
SARGE@startrek.website · 3 pts · 201d
Rune_Walsh@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 201d
Jane Raybauld, a Democrat, pushed for this because her family owns grocery stores that employ minors. She's a piece of shit.
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 201d
Cant vote but can be worked to death for poverty wages - just one more form of legal slavery
rottenmummy@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 201d
US being US
arin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
conservative is to be backwards
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
One state isn't other 49. Don't lump the backwards with the rest of us.
Tja@programming.dev · 4 pts · 201d
Who's your president, again?
RickyRigatoni@piefed.social · 3 pts · 201d
Gregory Bananas
rottenmummy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
You have a point, but most recently we don't hear that best of news out of the US. it is especially hard not to do so because the president is a pedophile.
zout@fedia.io · 25 pts · 201d
Like I said in another thread, this has been the case in the Netherlands for at least since the eighties (€4,32 an hour if you're 15, still below €10 if you're 19) . And employers abuse the shit out of it, hiring young people as cheap labour and trying to get rid of them before they turn 21.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
Wtf, only 30% of the minimum wage for being 15? What exactly is the company supposed to do with the other 70% to justify that?
zout@fedia.io · 1 pts · 200d
The justification once was that young people couldn't get a job if someone more experienced would get the same pay.
BeautifulMind@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 201d
I guess the GOP wants to fuck the teens in more ways than one
pemptago@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 201d
Children working for low wages: truly a show of a thriving state and a Great America /s
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 13 pts · 201d
Imagine how many of them are parents themselves, just fuck over 2 generations at once.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 201d
Work is work, age shouldn't have a damn thing to do with wages.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
Meanwhile, when I was a teen I had to pay bills and rent, and I was paid MUCH MORE than kids are today (inflation).
But fuck teens, right? Oh, and you're drafted womp womp
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
How many affected by this aren't even capable of voting? Fucking evil.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 200d
Child slavery is beginning again
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 201d
More MAGA winning. This is exactly what MAGA wants to do on a national level.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
I don't really have an issue with this. At $25 an hour, 10% less for actual teenagers is fair.
Wait, did you say $15?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 201d
yeah it should at the least be the opposite and raise minimum wage for non teenages. Its low enough.
SARGE@startrek.website · 4 pts · 201d
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
Now implement price controls.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 201d
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 201d
$13.50 is less than 16 years of age? How does that math work? Is it $2 per year or is there some other formula you're using?
Age of consent in Nebraska, USA is 16. This is easily Googleable (I used DDG though, which uses Bing on the back end). Here's the top result: https://www.ageofconsent.net/states/nebraska
P.S. I broke out the calculator to justify your original statement. To get 15.9 as an age (lower than the age of consent in Nebraska, USA), you would have to consider $1.18 to be the value of each year. In other words, if you really did want to compare $13.50 an hour to an age that is lower than the minimum age of consent (I used 15.9), you would have to value each year to be worth $1.18. Or each dollar to be worth 1.18 years. I'm not sure. I'm not great at math. Maybe someone else can explain that better. I tried to make your argument make sense!
(I think you were trying to say that Nebraska's age of consent is 13, but you didn't think anybody would go look it up.)
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d