Beef is $8 per pound, and minimum wage (no tips) is $7.65 -- right now, an American working minimum wage has to work 2 hours to afford one pound of beef. And snap benefits are being cut, along with health care, housing, etc. This is slavery.
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I live in the red state of Floriduh and minimum wage is higher than that. Who the hell works for federal min wage anymore???
aug 30, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
As of 2025, the five states that have not adopted a state minimum wage & therefore operate under the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour are Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, & Tennessee. Additionally, Georgia, Oklahoma, & Wyoming have state minimum wages below the federal rate.
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
A lot of people, especially in the service industry, the home-care / nursing home industry, and retail. They are the 30-hour workforce employees who are paid minimum wage, then the govt picks up their health care, housing vouchers and Medicaid. Can't ask WS to pay benefits any longer. $$$
aug 30, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds miserable. Oh well
aug 30, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
It's been that way for decades. WalMart, Home Depot, restaurants -- all decided on 30-hour weekly work shifts in order to bypass paying for insurance, vacation, 401K, etc. For decades, our government has been paying for the working poor. The minimum was created to insure NO WORKER was in poverty.
aug 30, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view