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.
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.
You don’t have the mental capacity to see it.
That’s why I ask, I would like to see it.
Scroll back up and read what you wrote, then.
You must mean this:
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.