More Voting Frustration
This week I'm venting about low voting turnout in a recent Oklahoma election.
$2.13 sub-minimumwage since 1991 https://cepr.net/publications/the-2-13-subminimum-wage-when-is-enough-enough/
Note: 2009, Congress increased Federal #minimumwage to $7.25 per hour with the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. It has not been increased since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States
(51 State’s Minimum wage rates )
https://stateandfederalposter.com/pages/2026-state-minimum-wage-rates?
When #ICE was revising the federal #standards that govern #immigration #detention centers, one of its top contractors privately asked for changes that could benefit its business, acc/to a person briefed on the discussions.
#GeoGroup, which oversees more than a dozen ICE detention facilities, has faced #lawsuits in 3 states alleging it violates #MinimumWage #laws by paying some #immigrant detainees $1 a day to work.
@toolie.rr, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.
I was today years old when I found out Georgia doesn’t have rent control.
@lollipop_bridges_mrshmllw_sky replied:
It's not just the corporate landlords.
#georgia #rentcontrol #minimumwage #blackwomen #92percent #blackmastodon
Capos are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/big-tech-built-a-gig-economy-that-works-against-us/
How low can you go go go ? (Capo Limbo)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb?
#Capitalism #exploitation #gigeconomy #minimumwage #surveillance #workingpoor
If you really hate #capitalism and want #socialism, chances are you LOVE the idea of a #minimumwage.
If you really, really think a minimum wage is a path to ending poverty, just ask yourself this very simple question; why not call up a nation in abject poverty and tell them to mandate a $15/hour minimum wage? I mean, if that ends poverty...why aren't we doing that?
Because even a passing grasp of #economics tells us that, no; minimum wages do not help with #poverty.
Minimum wage workers in Australia have been given a 6% pay rise, taking them to $A1000 ($NZ1207) a week. The new minimum hourly rate is $A 26.44 -- equivalent to $NZ 32.04 per hour.
I was surprised to learn that from a population of 28m, only 100,000 people were on minimum wage.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/minimum-wage-australia-tops-1000-week-stoking-inflation-fears
World news | The Guardian
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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
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