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.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Pretty sure that’s the point of project 2025, so everyone is too poor and stuck to fight the dictatorship and no one else can get ahead forcing the them to be a cog in the machine for the 1% until they’re dead

    • pulido@lemmings.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Jokes on them.

      More people who feel they have nothing to live for are more people who are willing to go to extreme measures to punish the ones who put them in that position.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      5·
      4 hours ago

      “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” JFK