'Alexander Acosta may bear the title of U.S. Secretary of Labor, but you wouldn’t know it from the policies he has implemented as head of the one cabinet-level department explicitly devoted to the welfare of American workers,' writes columnist hiltzikm
To place the federal minimum in perspective, it has been eaten away since 1968, when it peaked in inflation-adjusted terms at $10.15 . In other words, the federal minimum is lower today than it was 50 years ago. The rate has not been raised since 2009, when it was increased from $6.55.
Those figures give the lie to Acosta’s assertion that the wage-increase states are “imposing” their cost structures on the holdouts. There’s little consistency among those states, and plenty of latitude to find a reasonable level somewhere between $15 and $7.25. As it happens, some Democrats have advocated a wage increase keyed to regional standards of living.By any measure, today’s federal minimum wage is historically low. It’s now about one-third of the median full-time wage.
Seattle, moreover, remains one of the fastest-growing labor markets in the country, another trend undermining the case of naysayers.
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