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…

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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    41·
    1 个月前

    Yeah, “mental capacity” is the main hurdle for minimum wage workers to unionize… Fuck off.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        31·
        1 个月前

        Unless you’re offering me a tutoring position, I’m gonna leave it to you to figure this one out… You’ve got the internet at your fingertips. I believe in you.

        • seeigel@feddit.orgEnglish
          15·
          1 个月前

          You could name the main hurdle without becoming a tutor.

          Of course there are reasons like no time from working two jobs or union busting behavior as seen from Starbucks or Amazon.

          But that leaves enough workers who could run the union.

          The main problem is convincing all minimum wage workers to join the union. Somebody has to come up with the necessary communication strategy. Whoever can do that most likely doesn’t work a minimum wage job.