My parents retired to SC and my dad got a job on a golf course for fun. Minimum wage is under $8 and there’s no such thing as time and a half. It’s pretty nuts how different states are so far apart with wages.

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https://www.epi.org/publication/stagnant-wages-in-2014/

The sacred day of rest (sabbath) in the Old Testament was actually Saturday. The early Christian church changed it to Sunday.

u/mp246 Can I let you in on a secret?

One of the more annoying things about being responsible for any online community is when someone posts something I agree with, and they make a valid & informative point, but I still have to remove their post(s) because they didn't do so respectfully.

I removed a few of yours. I agree with them. But you decided to call people names and insult them, instead of just getting your point across. -- Please do better in the future. - Thanks.

You have to be insanely stupid to think this is why it was ended.

Why are you having such a hard time imagining having both? The false dichotomy of only having one of Sunday pay/$15 minimum wage was something entirely invented by politicians.

Call me old fashioned but I’d love to see them bring back the Sunday blue laws where everything was closed on Sundays. At least that way, everyone will get one weekend day off.

If you work in retail, Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Depending on the store and type of retail, often even busier than Saturday.

It only makes sense for businesses where that’s the case to offer a greater incentive for employees to want to be there on a day where they have to do exponentially more work.

My weekend is Monday - Friday and my work week is Saturday - Sunday. That's right I have a five day weekend and a two day work week. lol

So it looks like MA is unique. The issue is that we’re so used to getting the money.

where

My kids have Saturday and Sunday off from school.

It is the only 2 days I can interact with them before they fly off the coop. Can you put a price on fishing with your kids a day a week?

How many schools in this state offer Thu-Mon schedule so kids can have Tue-Wed off to go fishing with you?

$15 an hour is only $30k a year at regular 40-hour a week job. That said most of us on SS get even less. It's not a lot, but you can certainly live on that amount.

Ok. I give up.

I know you agree with the sentiment, but the fact that you think it's necessary for somebody to exclaim "THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA AREN'T TELLING YOU" is some silly shit.

(And for anybody reading this, you can say "media is" or "media are." Both are acceptable because media is plural for medium.)

Where are you looking? $2400 for a 2-bed is not the average here. You are about $500 too high in your estimate maybe a bit less but I still regularly see 2-beds for less than $2000.

> . If you work for minimum wage you should expect to be able to afford the minimum required essentials to live.

Agreed. You can no longer do that on $15 and hour in the state of Massachusetts

Sunday use to be a sacred day of the week. (Exodus 20) A day of rest. No business we’re opened. People went to church, or stayed home with family to enjoy time together.

Over time, Stores became more Progressive, and introduced ‘Sunday hours’. If a store was going to be open on ‘The Lords Day’, store owners would have to pay for that luxury, by paying employees time-and-a-half.

Now that most people want consumerism on a daily basis.. with no distinction of days...the incentive is dissipating.

Yeah, a month, jeez i'm just off today.. dang. .

Do you mean 2160 a month? Because I make well over $15 an hour and don’t take home anywhere close to 2K a week lmao

That is exactly my point!!!! So why not ask the media why aren’t they covering these people? Geez, do you not understand subtext? I’m on your side on this topic

In light of the most recent missing persons posts on this subreddit, as well as on the news (Ana Walshe, Brittany Tee, Michael Gray, etc.) OP posted 15 PoC who are still missing in MA and have not been widely covered in news media or on this subreddit.

There's this thing called subtext and most reasonably intelligent people can understand subtext without having to be explicitly told. Do you consider yourself to be reasonably intelligent? If the answer is yes, then that answers your question.

If the answer is no: it is heavily implied in OP's post that news media and people in this sub do not acknowledge missing PoC the same way they acknowledge missing white people.

When it was created it was called "A living wage" the minimum REQUIRED TO LIVE. $15 does not meet that criteria. At all.

I mean look at what france is doing. Give an inch they take a mile.