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| gehzumteufel |
Well me that is poverty. Although you make more than that at 6.75/hr at a mcdonalds. |
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| noikeee |
| Guess it's not easy to live with that money with the cost of living of the US, but you'd be top-middle class in Africa with that. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by noikeee
Guess it's not easy to live with that money with the cost of living of the US, but you'd be top-middle class in Africa with that. |
Those numbers are misleading though. Very few people really make that low. And especially not 40m people. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Those numbers are misleading though. Very few people really make that low. And especially not 40m people. |
So most of them are under-reporting their income? |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
So most of them are under-reporting their income? |
Dude, I have a friend that works 20hrs/wk at ralphs making $8/hr. She makes 10k/yr on that. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| Not to mention, when I was making 6.75/hr (true I worked 50hr weeks, but still) I was making 18k/yr before taxes. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Dude, I have a friend that works 20hrs/wk at ralphs making $8/hr. She makes 10k/yr on that. |
Okay...
I'm not sure what your point is. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Okay...
I'm not sure what your point is. |
So 40 million people are making 5.15/hr? Yeah bull on that. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
So 40 million people are making 5.15/hr? Yeah bull on that. |
Think about it for a second. A lot of those people are making nothing at all, since they are kids or disabled people who cannot work. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Think about it for a second. A lot of those people are making nothing at all, since they are kids or disabled people who cannot work. |
Exactly my point. The numbers are so misleading. Plus how many of them are in places that are so NOT like California and NY. Where rent is $400/month and they take home with SSI and all that 1000/month. |
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| Echo of Silence |
| Ben, many can't get 30 or 40 or 50 hours a week. Some businesses have to offer benefits to employees who work more than 25 or 30 hours so they limit work to 24 or 29 hours. A lot of people who do work make only minimum wage. Once you adjust for dependents and expenses such as interest on home loans, medical expenses, child care, they probably qualify to be considered poor. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| The total population of the states with no or effectively no minimum wage law (ones that go by federal because of the lack of one or it is lower than federal) is 45m people. There is NO way that even half those are making 5.15/hr. It is just ludicrous to think that. |
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