• Artisian@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I’m really quite sure that nobody is working mcdonalds for (edit: federal) minimum wage. Who would take that job? These stats are online and easy to see, fast food is hiring much closer to 18/hr than 8. (Edit: that said, there are apparently still a few states with average starting pay closer to $10. So I’m no longer so sure about everybody. Still pretty sure it’s rare.)

    This makes sense. A ceo endorses this policy when it hurts his company less and others companies more.

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        11 days ago

        This is wild to me; I kinda want to ask if you volunteered or were obligated under some program. But it is plausible, apparently there are a handful of states where this happened relatively recently.

        It remains rare. But my superlatives went too far. Editing it down.

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          I was living in a small town in Oklahoma, my car broke down, and it was only McDonald’s or Walmart I could reasonably walk to and McD’s called me back first. Not a work program or anything, that’s legit what they paid all the regular crew members.