In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far…

In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far the minimum wage is from economic security for workers and their families.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        If not you should reexamine which political label you have chosen for yourself and see if it actually matches your contempt for all who earn wages.

        • seeigel@feddit.orgEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          It’s an analysis, not a solution. Where is the contempt? You can tell me where I am wrong but I haven’t said anything about how anybody should be treated.

                • seeigel@feddit.orgEnglish
                  12·
                  1 day ago

                  You must mean this:

                  because they don’t have the mental capacity to organize themselves.

                  Condescending, like the other thread says, I can see that. How can there be contempt for something that people cannot change. That would be stupid.

                  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    3·
                    1 day ago

                    Condescending, like the other thread says, I can see that. How can there be contempt for something that people cannot change.

                    You see poor people and your first thought is how stupid they must be.