Based on how hard Americans are working, that’s what we should have:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made a case for increasing the minimum wage last week during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing, in which she cited a study that suggested the federal minimum wage would have stood at nearly $22 an hour today if it had kept up with increased rates in worker productivity.

And something else: If we were to raise America’s minimum wage to keep pace with increases in wages for the top 1 percent over the last 50 years, then our lowest earners would now be getting “closer to $33 an hour.”

Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this,...

3 replies on “A $22 an Hour Minimum Wage”

  1. Patty Murray will be thrilled to give up her dumbest senator in office award to Fauxcohantas. Go ahead and raise is to $22 and we will see the largest raise of inflation and devaluation of the dollar in our history.

  2. Australia’s minimum wage is twice that of what we have here and they seem to be doing fine, so I’m calling bullshit on that claim.

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