Mastodawn

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jul 19, 2025

16 Years Without a #FederalMinimumWage Hike Is an Outrage;
It’s long past time to fix this failure in our #economy and in our #politics

https://portside.org/2025-07-18/16-years-without-federal-minimum-wage-hike-outrage

16 Years Without a Federal Minimum Wage Hike Is an Outrage

When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. For full-time workers that amounts to $15,080 if you are paid for 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. The minimum wage is falling further and further behind the rising cost of living. The federal minimum wage peaked in buying power way back in 1968, when it was worth $15.09 in 2025 dollars, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation Calculator.

Portside

Hacker News Apr 30, 2025

The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025

https://www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-officially-a-poverty-wage-in-2025/

#HackerNews #federalminimumwage #povertywage #2025 #wagegap #economicjustice #workersrights

The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025

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…

Economic Policy Institute

joe•iuculano

Oct 21, 2024

Via #Kamala HQ @ 4:13pm EDT on Oct 21, 2024

Vice President #Harris: #DonaldTrump does not believe we should raise the #FederalMinimumWage. I do. And now an independent analysis has found that Donald Trump's plan would cause #SocialSecurity to run out in six years. That would be catastrophic for #seniors