Seventeen years is long enough for a baby born the year the wage was last raised to now be old enough to work that exact same job, at the exact same pay, worth dramatically less than it used to be.
A company can now set your grocery price based on your zip code, your shopping history, and what it thinks you're willing to pay, and call the whole thing "optimization."
A company can now set your grocery price based on your zip code, your shopping history, and what it thinks you're willing to pay, and call the whole thing "optimization."
The last time the minimum wage went up, the iPhone didn't have an app store yet. Seventeen years of everything else in this country changing, and that one number just stayed exactly where it was.
The last time the minimum wage went up, the iPhone didn't have an app store yet. Seventeen years of everything else in this country changing, and that one number just stayed exactly where it was.
Nobody in Congress needs to survive on $7.25 an hour. That might be the simplest explanation for why it's been seventeen years and the number still hasn't moved.
Nobody in Congress needs to survive on $7.25 an hour. That might be the simplest explanation for why it's been seventeen years and the number still hasn't moved.
You can work every single hour of a full-time job, all year, and by the government's own poverty threshold, still not be making enough to be considered above the poverty line.
You can work every single hour of a full-time job, all year, and by the government's own poverty threshold, still not be making enough to be considered above the poverty line.
The federal poverty line moved. Prices moved. Rent moved. Groceries moved. The one number that was supposed to protect the lowest-paid workers in the country simply stayed exactly where it was.
The federal poverty line moved. Prices moved. Rent moved. Groceries moved. The one number that was supposed to protect the lowest-paid workers in the country simply stayed exactly where it was.