Oligarchs use government to kill off anyone standing in their way of insatiable wealth. It's what America was founded on. Question is, do we see it now?!!!
Mostly-MAGA red states stagnate year after year. This is last year's adjustment for all but 21 states which languish at $7.25/hour (except for WV, which added a dollar/hour).
CA raised the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hour effective April 1, 2024
Since new minimum wage came into effect in April, the state’s fast-food sector has actually gained jobs and done so at a faster pace than much of the rest of the country.
SC native here...short answer, they're not. But though the official min wage is 7.25, there are few places paying that low even here due to competition for employees. Anyone paying a tiny bit more per hour can filch staff from other employers. I've seen as low as $10/hr, but more commonly it's 14-15
What's interesting is that I was visiting a cousin last month in Baltimore and he said he can't hire for less than $20-25 an hour up there for much the same reason. Min wage is necessary, obviously, but market conditions sometimes make it irrelevant. doesn't answer your question of how to live on it
I have strong ties to SC.
The saddest thing is that they think Melania is
B-YOU-T-FULL and that he is a Messiah and is so entertaining. It is blood blood red there. They vote against their own interests and heaven help if you point this out. Even in a polite Southern woman kind of way.
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Interesting isn’t it… someone should lay the election map over the minimum wage map…. The people who have the most to lose with the Orange Asshole in office are also the least paid for the most part… it is going to get worse…. 💔💔
One day, a map like the one below will be the default and at that time the social sciences and media will have some semblance of truth
till then, not so much
Thank you for sharing this interesting states’ wages map.
I feel so sorry for those in the (mostly) MAGA states. No one can live on $7.25/hour.
No wonder so many single moms without much education are working 2 jobs. Heartbreaking.
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. James 5:4
Ask yourself, does God find those in a nonagrarian less guilty of fraud?
So in 2025 21 states still think is perfectly acceptable to pay people $7.25, plus the one thing this map doesn't reflect. That most of these jobs in particular the lower paying ones are more than likely P/T jobs, so most of them barely get 30 hrs a week if they are lucky with no benefits...
New Hampshire went from the 17th best when the GOP took full majority under Sununu to the third worst economy… our pay is abysmal for anybody less than the top 5% of income… we are top five for cost-of-living and top 10/15 for housing and rent
This is why NH is the bedroom community for MA. Live in NH for the tax benefits, work in MA for the salaries, employee protection and unemployment benefits (very important these days!)
Yet there isn’t a tax benefit.
For tax inequity it’s the 18th worst & even greater when you take out top earners… Schools have plummeted in National ranking & last in funding
Nh has become the 2nd oldest state
Yeah . . . I’m guessing that there are employee discounts on meals when you are on the clock but it’s f*cked up that a person would have to work an hour and then som just to afford a regularly priced McDonald’s combo meal. 👀
Shitty wages. Shitty legislators taking freedoms and rights away. Shitty education. Shitty treatment of women. The only benefit I see for red staters is that they can openly be racist while blaming libs for their shitty existence.
We can't. So many work several jobs and rely on social services despite working so hard. Sadly, our GOP controlled government will most likely gut what services they can. A depression may be coming, and we will see homelessness and poverty to a huge extent. All because these oligarchs want more!
No great surprise that those in the red states with $7.35 as the minimum wage are also the same folks the most "concerned" about the economy and angry about food prices. Sadly they also don't realize that many states'min wage is double that and haven't crashed or turned into socialist wastelands.
But! Red States don't understand what 'Socialism' means. They've been told it's a bad word/thing. Wait until The Regime takes away their food stamps, Medicare, SS and raise taxes and more. SCHWING!
Do we see a pattern of red states paying their people barely nothing yet they are still angry with blue states? Boy😝stupid is a good weapon that the GOP is using daily against their racist uneducated misogynistic dumb dumbs.
That must suck for the towns in Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Kentucky that border Illinois. How will they get workers who can go just across the border and earn more than twice as much!
I remember making $13 and trying to support a family. That amount is not enough for a single person. $7 is atrocious when the CEOs take millions of dollars. Don’t tell me a CEO works millions of times harder than a common worker. And Dave Ramsey, a christian, says the rich are not bad.
The Norwegian state have always insisted that public spending should only be financed by taxes etc. The money in the fund is just there for securing the future generations. The state finances have to balance without spending fund money. Not all agree to it, but that is how it is.
Absurd to keep $7.25 when we all know that this amount cannot feed a family of four!
California, as usual, is showing that increasing the pay does not cause businesses to fail while motivating employees to do a better job!
“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry;
by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
And Georgia is one of the states who refused to expand their Medicaid program when the ACA was passed. They also make people jump through a ridiculous amount of red tape to receive food stamps, making some wait as much as 7 months after applying! I think they’re trying to kill poor folks in GA.
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SF, Taos & ABQ are higher.
Burn it down!
W: Wages – Boost pay and worker protections.
O: Opportunities – Open paths to jobs and innovation.
K: Knowledge – Keep education strong and accessible.
E: Elder longevity – Equitable healthcare for longer, healthier lives.
WOKE means better outcomes!
Since new minimum wage came into effect in April, the state’s fast-food sector has actually gained jobs and done so at a faster pace than much of the rest of the country.
https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/early-effects-of-californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-large-wage-increases-with-no-effects-on-hours-scheduling-or-benefits/
The saddest thing is that they think Melania is
B-YOU-T-FULL and that he is a Messiah and is so entertaining. It is blood blood red there. They vote against their own interests and heaven help if you point this out. Even in a polite Southern woman kind of way.
😢
till then, not so much
I feel so sorry for those in the (mostly) MAGA states. No one can live on $7.25/hour.
No wonder so many single moms without much education are working 2 jobs. Heartbreaking.
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. James 5:4
Ask yourself, does God find those in a nonagrarian less guilty of fraud?
For tax inequity it’s the 18th worst & even greater when you take out top earners… Schools have plummeted in National ranking & last in funding
Nh has become the 2nd oldest state
https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/#:~:text=Fiscal%20Year%20(FY)%202022%2D,obligated%20and%20%2486.7%20billion%20disbursed.
As a Canadian i am saddened by this!
How can people live!?!?
Such a shame!
And it worked.
I thought it was them damn immigrants?
Concerning.
That party does not want to lift any class, but the rich.
OTOH, they also didn't have to contend with the legacy of US racism.
California, as usual, is showing that increasing the pay does not cause businesses to fail while motivating employees to do a better job!
It's been said before.
“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry;
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why is there no max wage? In theory, if it were necessary…I mean, no one would ever take more in a day than someone earns in a year…right?
They’re little more than ATMs for the privileged few.
Their goal falls more along closing a noose, of no other options.
Too big to fail.
It should’ve been seen as an alarm.
1 yr @ 15,000 a day …~ 3,900,000
So that also translates to several lifetimes, ie. 4 lives of 67yrs. In one year. And that’s just one year. Multiplying with every year.