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 the wrong side to tackle the problem.
Wages can be risen with an increased demand for workers. How? That is the relevant question that leads to the right answers. Minimum wage is a distraction.
I know. Workers having enough to live on instead of corporations and billionaires hoarding it all is a problem, huh?
Please don’t ignore my second paragraph.
Your second paragraph is an admission that you have no better ideas but want to abandon minimum wage anyway. That’s basically an admission that you don’t want people to be able to earn a living.
Seems like you don’t know this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour
I think I point out the obstacle to people making a living. There is no easy answer. Rising minumum wage sounds easy but as I wrote, it is a distraction.
“Let the corporations exploit people” is a pretty easy answer. It requires no effort and you don’t have to waste time supporting the interests of those unwashed mental deficients you don’t want to earn a living.
Please read the article. It’s one of the most important things to know.
I have read the article, and I don’t see where it supports your disregard for the wages of people you consider beneath you.
I don’t have that disregard. My point is that the supply of jobs has to be increased instead of setting a lower bound on wages.
Focussing on minimum wages makes workers ignore how they are controlled and how they can increase their wages without having to rely on benevolence. To me, that’s disregardful.