Can you survive on $7.25?
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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No.
That’s not a livable wage. I’m in a medium col city in the US.
15 an hour doesn’t even cover rent anymore. If you don’t have a promising career and are one of the lucky ones, it’s bleak out here
Couldn’t live on it in 2008. Sure as hell can’t live on it now.
classic how everybody just ignores the fact that all of the fucking wealth in our country is owned by just a couple fucking people literally just a handful of individual human beings who have more than over 50% of the entire fucking nations wealth to just themselves alone, and our perpetually setting themselves up to get more as it compounds continuously as they gain more wealth and more power in our political system, furthering the problem enabling it, worsening it every year.
Literally hopeless , seems like about 2/3 of the people are just literally unable to see what’s in front of their face i guess or something. Nobody cares about any of these issues until it’s something that’s personally affecting them or somebody that they know and that’s just this sad reality of it, people will be more and more divided as time goes on. Selfish human nature.
Worthless post by Nina Turner because Trump’s nominee said he wasn’t in favor of raising it beyond $7.25.
Dead end. It’s over. Wanna change it? Do it at your state level or start campaigning for 2028, because nothing will change until then.
Raising the minimum wage is irrelevant – only [1.3% of American workers make minimum wage](https://usafacts.org/articles/minimum-wage-america-how-many-people-are-earning-725-hour/). Focusing on the minimum wage is a nonsense feel-good policy.
Lol news flash, Republican majority in everything, patterns have shown you and your livelihood are of no concern to them…they are more concerned with banning abortions, making sure transgender can’t play sports/use the bathroom, invading Greenland, Canada and the Panama canal, ending birth right citizenship, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, extending their billionaire tax cuts…
I hate when people say “still”, because it obscures the true weight of the problem. While the number hasn’t changed, its worth has been slashed in more than half – spending more like 3.50 an hr comparatively.
I know this is gonna get some hate.
But if you are making 7.25, you are either a kid, or you really fucked up your life. I haven’t even seen an ad for less than 12$/hr. I don’t even know what job would find workers for 7.25z
I make 15 and I couldn’t cover my monthly bills without my wife’s income
The people who set that minimum wage should be required to try living on it for even a few months and see how far they get before crying and giving up.
Republicans don’t want to. Their main concern is tax breaks for the wealthy. 🤷🏻♀️
Define survive. I can have enough to buy enough calorie dense foods to stave off starvation and live in a van or the woods. I can join planet fitness to.have access to cheap showers so I don’t lose my minimum wage job for poor hygiene. I will be stuck in this state until something catastrophic happens and I wind up in the hospital. The government will then confiscate my car. I will no longer have income for calorie dense foods or planet fitness. I lose my job. I live in the woods, but eventually congregate to cities. I am homeless. I cannot break the cycle. I turn to begging. Drugs look appealing as an escape from the harsh nature of society. I get addicted. I get infected or overdose. I die.
Minimum wage should be tied to inflation so it gets updated automatically on a yearly basis.
Who actually makes the minimum wage? What business pays $7.25
Who’s actually making this minimum wage? Companies were having trouble hiring people towards the tail end of the pandemic and they raised hourly pay. In the NY tristate area, Starbucks, chipotle, Walmart etc. don’t pay less than $15/hour. I remember giving $20 as a gesture to my cousin who works at chipotle and he gave it back to me and said I make this in an hour at my job. His reaction aside, I was in shock. Back in my teen days $20 was a lot of money and this is not to say cost of living hasn’t increased but seems like hourly pay has also went up.
This doesn’t mean every location is the same because location matters but it’s certainly not $7.25/hour. I’d be curious which jobs are still paying this rate though? Like babysitters make minimum $15/hour and sometimes $30/hour if they have meaningful experience. Retail jobs, atleast some of retailers I visit, pay way above the minimum wage.
The whole reason democrats lost was Harris offering to raise it to $15 lol. I honestly can’t tell if they are legitimately that far out of touch or if they just didn’t care about losing and decided to tell the working class to fuck themselves anyways.
This is a state issue, not a federal issue.
[https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wages](https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wages)
Here’s the thing.
Less than 2% of US workers make minimum wage.
So, it completely matters the context in which you talk about the minimum wage.
It still needs to be raised even if it’s just 2% because it would raise the floor on all wages (theoretically) or at least have a more comfortable wage floor for those who need it.
Does this make prices go up? At this point (we can debate economics if you’d like), it doesn’t matter. The government (under Trump and Biden) dumped over four trillion dollars into the economy. It’s been shown that they don’t care about devaluing your currency, so I’d rather it be devalued by our poorest of people receiving more than the richest (which us where those trillions ultimately ended up)
It isn’t going to happen, though, at least not in the foreseeable future.
So don’t give up on the federal minimum wage being raised and do everything that you can to make it so, but make sure you vote on your state level. Organize people in your state to put heat on your elected officials to raise their state minimum wage.
This is especially important for people in the South. Hold your local officials accountable for your economy and quality of life.
I’m looking at you WV and MS especially.
Organize your community. Meet your community members. It starts from the bottom up.
That’s a dozen eggs an hour!
Bring back 700 dollar apartments
Import more migrants it will be down to 6.25 next year
Gas stations and fast food are hiring at double the minimum wage.
My wife works in a hospital for just over 18 an hour, but our local Culver’s is desperate for workers at 15 an hour.
The minimum wage is irrelevant, and I see the real reason you people are crying about it
That’s something all of us can (and should) agree on. At the bare MINIMUM, it should be $10/hr. And that’s nothing, now.
Most employers can’t compete for qualified labor by paying $7.25 an hour, even in states that follow federal law. The current MW is meaningless.
Can’t believe the amount of people in here saying “well It’s not supposed to be survivable!” like do you not think there’s something wrong with that? These people expect every low-skilled worker to become a doctor or something
It’s not for the government to help you survive.
Get some skills. Learn a trade. Better yourself to make more money. Minimum wage is for teens, starters jobs, not to support yourself and your fam
For how long?
lol in this environment? one side is impotent and the other side doesn’t care about you and is enriching themselves, welcome to the jungle
Fast food and gas stations are hiring in my area for 12-16 bucks an hour.
Show me a job listing where 7.25 is the pay. Because no one is actually working for that little except delivery drivers and waiters/waitresses.
I think this is an irrelevant discussion at this point. I haven’t seen any job offering straight minimum wage in forever now. Hell, when I was working customer service in the early 2010s, I still made more than 7.25.
Absolutely not. I’ve lived in both rural and big cities. Couldn’t survive on $7.25 in either
Dude I couldn’t survive on $14 an hour
The lawmakers should make minimum wage. Change my mind.
15$ sounds fair
How many workers actually make minimum wage?
My sister made that working at Best Buy like 25 years ago. Crazy how it hasn’t gone up despite inflation.
lolno
In India yes. In US no.
Concept of a federal minimum wage makes 0 sense. Even if they raised it to $15, there are cities where you couldn’t survive. As long as there is supply, employers will pay as less as possible. Literally that’s what we as consumers do. More importantly, a lot of the service industry is actually against raising the minimum wages because they make a lot more through tips than they ever would if they were earning a decent minimum wage.
They raised minimum wage in Canada to $16. Now nobody can live off $30/hour.
Not livable.
Best they can do is border wars and culture wars 🤷♂️