$7.25 Club of Shame (Federal Minimum)

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...I make about $20 per hour as a surgical tech, and the cheapest apartments that are within the on-call response time radius of the hospital and don't come with a realistic chance of getting shot while walking to or from the car; plus utilities, food, gas, etc... and there's almost nothing left.

I could stretch it out a little by eating rice for every meal, but $7.50 per hour wouldn't even cover rent. Splitting it with a roommate who also makes $7.50 per hour might just barely cover rent.

You'd need like 5 people sharing a single bedroom apartment and a car just have a roof over their head and food in their stomach.

...meanwhile we have oligarchs that make so much money that the number of dollars is literally beyond our brain's ability to process.

We're way overdue for guillotine day.

I have nothing intelligent or insightful to say. I just fucking hate this country.

"The 20 states where the baseline wage will remain at $7.25 an hour are primarily located in the South and Midwest, ranging from Alabama to Wisconsin. "
So, the states you thought weren't getting the raise are the states that aren't getting the raise, except Florida apparently!?

If you're making minimum look into operations/warehousing. It's hard work but I literally can't get people to show up for less than $25/hr. Suburbs of Chicago tho.

Who’s getting a raise? No one probably. It won’t be enough to compensate for the lost wages to corporate greed “inflation”.

Still think we should just put all elected officials on the national minimum wage and watch how fast workers lives get better.

They forgot Massachusetts. Yeah, we’re not raising minimum wage next year but it’s already $15/hr. We deserve to be listed as one of the ~~six~~ seven states with minimum wage twice the federal level

The increases will boost the baseline pay to at least $16 an hour in three states: California, New York and Washington. In 22 states, the new minimum wages will take effect on January 1. However, Nevada and Oregon's new rates will go into effect on July 1, while Florida's will increase on September 30.

By contrast. workers in 20 states will still be subject to the federal minimum wage, which has stood at $7.25 an hour since 2009, when it was last increased.

The increases will boost the baseline pay to at least $16 an hour in three states: California, New York, and Washington. In 22 states.

Not enough for those high-cost cities.

I just heard on the radio this morning that a newly elected South American president raised the baseline to a 2%. This percent means $460 a month!

Republicans care SO MUCH about Workers that they aren't Raising their Wages!

I love how the article doesn't actually bother breaking out the minimum wage by state so you have to go searching if you actually want to know.

That belt of white at the bottom… wonder if that area has a name?

Worth mentioning that Florida passed a law a couple years ago that has been raising the minimum wage by $1/hr every year until we get to $15/hr. Slowly is better than not at all. Nice to see Florida not last for once.

The states that could use the higher rate are the states that aren't increasing the rate. I'm shocked.