The Minimum Wage is Too Form

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(gentle music) - So before I was the amazing YouTube host that you see before you today, I worked a minimum wage job at a donut shop. This is the actual shirt that I wore when I worked there for two years. Now, I mean, the job had obvious perks. Oh, would you look at that, just like these right here. But the pay? (mumbles) The pay, that wasn't so great. (record scratches) This is great. Minimum wage is the absolute lowest wage that the law allows a business to pay a worker. Nationally, the U.S. Government has that set at a number of $7.25 an hour, and it's been that way for ten years. But my job was in Oakland, California, which passed its own minimum wage law, so I got $12.25 an hour. So, if I got paid five bucks an hour more than the federal minimum wage, isn't that a good thing? Well, Oakland is part of the Bay Area, which is one of the most expensive places in the entire country. I'm talking $7 coffees, and $1,500 bucks a month to rent a bedroom. No, not an apartment, the bedroom.