Not saying just use bread. Use any common item that is a staple. Rice, gallons of gas, etc. you can even do a mix, feel free to experiment. But using dollar value I think isnt very effective.
I see where you’re saying. How about a single bag or a single cart of groceries instead?
I vaguely remember a grocery trip with my parents way back in the day when moving into our home. We had two full carts for $100 bucks. Nowadays, $100 bucks can fill one or two bags without much effort.
Interesting video (YT link to KRTV News 2m48s) showing a grocery receipt from 1997 for 27 items totaling under $40. Today it’s about $110 for the same items. According to the video, the cost exceeds the calculated inflation estimate of $81.
I think people trying to convince others need to start comparing it to time vs items, not simple $ value.
Older people voting see $7.25/hour and still think that’s good because it’s X% more than what it was when they were young.
Instead market it as “The minimum wage should be at least three loaves of bread per hour, up from two loaves of bread.”
In 1960 the minimum wage was about 4 loaves of bread. At the moment in Oklahoma it’s 2 loaves of bread.
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Not saying just use bread. Use any common item that is a staple. Rice, gallons of gas, etc. you can even do a mix, feel free to experiment. But using dollar value I think isnt very effective.
I see where you’re saying. How about a single bag or a single cart of groceries instead?
I vaguely remember a grocery trip with my parents way back in the day when moving into our home. We had two full carts for $100 bucks. Nowadays, $100 bucks can fill one or two bags without much effort.
Interesting video (YT link to KRTV News 2m48s) showing a grocery receipt from 1997 for 27 items totaling under $40. Today it’s about $110 for the same items. According to the video, the cost exceeds the calculated inflation estimate of $81.