The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska

tt24

What do minimum wage supporters expect to happen with people whose labor does not produce >= $minimum_wage worth of value?

bell-cot

Not to cast a shadow over this effort, but it sounds like rural Alaska could use some well-planned gov't programs to reduce the basic cost of living for everyone. Is anyone here familiar, to comment?

Neywiny

Needs to be dynamic. Maybe it's too hard for politicians to understand, but it needs to be tied to something. We can't keep raising it every few years to an absolute amount. This is a good start and I wish them the best but it's short term thinking like every other one of these bills. I also think it's weird to use the living wage as a basis since they'll only make it up to that number in 6 years?

gamblor956

$25 is difficult to manage even in California, with millions of customers. I can't see how its economically feasible in Alaska.