People deserve a living wage. While it might vary by state and city, it doesn’t negate the underlying fact.
Is $7.25 an hour for 40 hrs a week actually livable anywhere?
Does minimum wage even mean anything? Basically all the bottom of the barrel jobs near me pay close to double that because of muh free market etc.
It’s mainly a cost of living problem – raise the federal minimum and ban corporations from owning houses
Congress has given themselves 9 RAISES, since the last time the minimum raise was raised. Every attempt to raise the minimum wage has been blocked by REPUBLICANS. BUT hey, they did get you freaking out about trans people in bathrooms instead
$5.15/hr in Georgia and Wyoming is flabbergasting
Why did Washington choose an extra 28 cents? That’s such an odd number to have, I don’t get why they wouldn’t at least bounce it up to 16.30 to have it be a flatter number
How many people make minimum wage age how many people’s wages (unions, government, etc.) are pegged to something like minimum x 4? Â
First year aty job with no raise. And I’m talking 25 cents. Watched my owners go on 13 separate vacations this year.
Good thing there’s no inflation in the states that didn’t raise their minimum wage. Oh wait…
Most of the states with the lowest legal minimum wage have voted for Trump and other Republicans down the ticket because apparently “Democrats don’t care about labor.” Meanwhile, the average minimum wage in majority Democrat states is approximately double.
Please start making sense, my fellow Americans.
I dont know how anyone is surviving on $7.25/hr today.
The yellow color gradient is astonishingly awful.
Petition to let the south leave the union!!!
In fact the minimum wage should be 0.0000000000000001 dollars. Increasing minimum wage and “taxing the rich” give the same results as tariffs. Everything gets passed to consumers.
I love when “reputable” sources and articles have multiple grammar issues in the first few sentences. It really helps with the credibility. Thankfully this is an article that’s easily fact checked, unlike others.
Federal Minimum Wage just needs to be completely overhauled and the base idea of having a country-wide minimum wage be done away with. It makes zero sense from any economic measure. It doesn’t even work at the state level. $16/hr in Fresno is a completely different living situation (and paying situation for small businesses) than $16/hr in Los Angeles.
Minimum Wage needs to be more granular – the DOD already does cost of living analysis by zip code when determining things like Basic Housing Allowance for service members. Would be a much better way of determining minimum wage than broad-stroke Federal/State-wide minimum wages.
It’s dated for 2023, so a little out of date. Key information:
(1) In the US, there are about 81,000 people making minimum wage, and another 449,000 people making less than minimum. [Many of those ‘less than minimum’ are tipped employees — the BLS doesn’t provide data on how much they make after tips. Employers are legally required to true-up tipped workers to minimum if they make less than minimum after tips.]
(2) Of that 81k, 32k are teenagers, and another 15,000 are between 20 and 24.
(3) 49,000 are part-time workers
(4) Except for Pennsylvania (12,000) and Texas (6,000), no state has more than 5,000 minimum-wage workers
(5) 34,000 minimum-wage workers, and 539,000 sub-minimum workers are engaged in food preparation and serving — that’s about 2/3ds of the total minimum- and sub-minimum workers.
(6) The numbers above don’t include people under age 16.
good ole TN doesnt have a min wage, its defaulted to the fed. who knows what will if the next admin repeals the fed min wage.
Amazing how many of the highest states are also those with the best economies. Almost like consumers having more money is good or something. Weird
It’s funny to watch the group that has been yelling about tariffs causing prices to go up, claim with a straight face that 15$ minimum wage wouldn’t cause prices to go up.
Alright now go and pull yourself up by your boot-straps! Go on!
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People deserve a living wage. While it might vary by state and city, it doesn’t negate the underlying fact.
Is $7.25 an hour for 40 hrs a week actually livable anywhere?
Does minimum wage even mean anything? Basically all the bottom of the barrel jobs near me pay close to double that because of muh free market etc.
It’s mainly a cost of living problem – raise the federal minimum and ban corporations from owning houses
Congress has given themselves 9 RAISES, since the last time the minimum raise was raised. Every attempt to raise the minimum wage has been blocked by REPUBLICANS. BUT hey, they did get you freaking out about trans people in bathrooms instead
$5.15/hr in Georgia and Wyoming is flabbergasting
Why did Washington choose an extra 28 cents? That’s such an odd number to have, I don’t get why they wouldn’t at least bounce it up to 16.30 to have it be a flatter number
How many people make minimum wage age how many people’s wages (unions, government, etc.) are pegged to something like minimum x 4? Â
First year aty job with no raise. And I’m talking 25 cents. Watched my owners go on 13 separate vacations this year.
Good thing there’s no inflation in the states that didn’t raise their minimum wage. Oh wait…
Most of the states with the lowest legal minimum wage have voted for Trump and other Republicans down the ticket because apparently “Democrats don’t care about labor.” Meanwhile, the average minimum wage in majority Democrat states is approximately double.
Please start making sense, my fellow Americans.
I dont know how anyone is surviving on $7.25/hr today.
The yellow color gradient is astonishingly awful.
Petition to let the south leave the union!!!
In fact the minimum wage should be 0.0000000000000001 dollars. Increasing minimum wage and “taxing the rich” give the same results as tariffs. Everything gets passed to consumers.
I love when “reputable” sources and articles have multiple grammar issues in the first few sentences. It really helps with the credibility. Thankfully this is an article that’s easily fact checked, unlike others.
Federal Minimum Wage just needs to be completely overhauled and the base idea of having a country-wide minimum wage be done away with. It makes zero sense from any economic measure. It doesn’t even work at the state level. $16/hr in Fresno is a completely different living situation (and paying situation for small businesses) than $16/hr in Los Angeles.
Minimum Wage needs to be more granular – the DOD already does cost of living analysis by zip code when determining things like Basic Housing Allowance for service members. Would be a much better way of determining minimum wage than broad-stroke Federal/State-wide minimum wages.
Here’s information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics about people making at, or below, minimum wage: [https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/home.htm](https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/home.htm)
It’s dated for 2023, so a little out of date. Key information:
(1) In the US, there are about 81,000 people making minimum wage, and another 449,000 people making less than minimum. [Many of those ‘less than minimum’ are tipped employees — the BLS doesn’t provide data on how much they make after tips. Employers are legally required to true-up tipped workers to minimum if they make less than minimum after tips.]
(2) Of that 81k, 32k are teenagers, and another 15,000 are between 20 and 24.
(3) 49,000 are part-time workers
(4) Except for Pennsylvania (12,000) and Texas (6,000), no state has more than 5,000 minimum-wage workers
(5) 34,000 minimum-wage workers, and 539,000 sub-minimum workers are engaged in food preparation and serving — that’s about 2/3ds of the total minimum- and sub-minimum workers.
(6) The numbers above don’t include people under age 16.
good ole TN doesnt have a min wage, its defaulted to the fed. who knows what will if the next admin repeals the fed min wage.
Amazing how many of the highest states are also those with the best economies. Almost like consumers having more money is good or something. Weird
It’s funny to watch the group that has been yelling about tariffs causing prices to go up, claim with a straight face that 15$ minimum wage wouldn’t cause prices to go up.
Alright now go and pull yourself up by your boot-straps! Go on!
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