The Center for American Progress has a article explaining how costs have risen since the last minimum wage increase. According to their numbers, “dinner” has gone up 39.72%, electricity is up 25.02%, and gasoline up 135.20%.
The article may concentrate on those making minimum wage, but these costs have risen for all of us. Yuck!
Life at Minimum Wage [Center For American Progress]
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@ SWALVE
EXACTLY!!!!
Minimum Wage just like Foods Stamps aren’t designed to give you everything you need. Not to give you enough money for tons if food and other stuff you want to buy too. Its enough to keep you from starving to death, buy second hand clothes and afford a 0 or 1 bedroom apt. If you want more than that do like everyone else who has more and earn it.
Yes there are some charity cases. Those aren’t the majority. For people complaining about a single young adult. HAH if they aren’t mentally retarded or crippled then they deserve to make that much.
This isn’t meant to raise a family or buy a house or anything like that. Its to keep people from starving. Thats what it does.
Welfare state is BS. If you want more money earn it don’t think you “deserve” it because you have a minimum wage job. You don’t have it rough, you have it lazy.
This is laughable. When did it become a political blog? I thought this was supposed to be about consumers fighting back and having a voice, not supporting John Podesta and CAP.
Meg please do your homework and look who you’re quoting before posting.
Check that, Ben you go look. This is ridiculous.
Bad econ, all over!
What I want to know is how many people who made minimum wage in 1997 were still making it in 2007?
Gas? If you have a car, you’re not poor. Sell the car, use public transit.
Hamburger buns are sold in packages of 8 not 4. So are these people, who drink a gallon of milk a day, also double-bunning their burgers?
@nequam:
Arizona.
Also, in Alaska, most places have no sales tax, but North Pole, which does, taxes groceries.
I may have just not noticed in California, since I rarely bought groceries (military, on base, no BAS). Or do local sales taxes vary?
@JayThree: i take offense at that. i work for minimum wage. i am a college student, but to say we all spend more time on our cell phones (i don’t even own a cell phone, to poor paying rent, car insurance ($300 a month for a piece of crap 20 year old car, with a perfect driving record), and electricity to affoard it. i may not work at a fast food place, but minimum wage is minimum wage.