Minimum wage should be adjusted to inflation, and get a COLA increase every year. It should also be retroactively adjusted, which would put it around $26+

There’s no way an adult should be forced to work more than 40 hours a week for not enough to live on. When that is a norm it’s an illustration the economic model is failing.

And frankly, even 40 hours is too much, keeping people too exhausted for civic engagement and parenting, which figures largely into our intergenerational mental illness epidemic.