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.

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    14 hours 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.

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            1 hour 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.