Minimum wage has been frozen at $7.25 since 2009… which means it’s ba... https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/29092a4f-558e-4fce-867c-7cc58618f2a1 Minimum wage has been frozen at $7.25 since 2009… which means it’s basically a pay cut every year inflation rises. In this video I break down a ridiculously simple fix: hybrid indexing—raise the wage floor automatically each year by whichever is higher: inflation or median wage growth. If we’d done that, minimum wage would be ~$13.50 today… and ~$17+ if we’d done it since 1938. Not a utopia. Just math. Checkmate. #MinimumWage #RaiseTheWage #LivingWage #WorkersRights #EconomicJustice #LateStageCapitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #LaborMovement #UnionStrong #WorkingClass #Inflation #CostOfLiving #WageTheft #ClassConsciousness #EatTheRich #PoliticalEconomy #FDR #NewDeal #USPolitics #PolicyTok #LeftTok #WealthInequality #CorporateGreed #EconomicsExplained Wed, 06 May 2026 14:15:07 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube Minimum wage has been frozen at $7.25 since 2009… which means it’s ba... https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/29092a4f-558e-4fce-867c-7cc58618f2a1 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.