Should the Federal government formally replace "minimum wage" with a "living wage"?

[Takket]

With living wage being scientifically calculated

example: this site
https://livingwage.mit.edu/

And should there be any caveats to your wage?
Example: This site shows 1 person along, 2 adults with only 1 working, etc. Should the person living with another adult have to prove that adult is NOT working to be entitled to the higher wage?

What about persons that live with their parents for free? Should they get the same wage or should you have to prove you have a rent/mortgage to get the higher living wage?

What if you commute from an area with a small living wage to one with a large living wage? Should you get the benefit of the larger living wage if your expenses are much lower? And vice versa what if you living in a place with a large living wage, but commute to some place with a low one? You'd be getting screwed if they base your wage on where you work and not where you living.

I think everyone agrees that wages don't keep up with inflation, that's been going on since Reagan declared war on the middle class (and somehow convinced the country he was a great leader while doing it). And I also thing everyone agrees a living wage is the way to go (gets employers to pay instead taxpayers supplementing income for people that can't make ends meet even though they work).

But what should that piece of legislation actually look like?

[brooklynite]

1. No indication even democrats would take this on.

[msongs]

2. minmum wage is specific, living wage is too vague, depending on what kind of living u want nt

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Well, that would mean wages are dependent on the geographic area, as NJ's adj. poverty is near $30K

[multigraincracker]

4. Need a maximum wage.

Let’s level the field.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Indeed! nt

[brush]

6. Calculating a living wage for the instances the OP mentions can be done.

We have computers that can crunch those numbers. And we've had them all along we just haven't applied them to such a problem because the right/repubs would start screaming "socialism" on cue.

Our computers just sent a rocket to around to the other side of the moon, the first step in a mission for a settlement there. We got a new deep space telescope, we've done missions to all the planets, the space shuttles, our computers just crunched the numbers to nudged aside the orbit of an asteroid whose future path was coming to close to the earth for comfort.

Or course we can compute living wages for what situations come up.

[MichMan]

7. $40 per hour should do it.