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Re:Education and Men without Work by bjourne on Monday January 13, 2020 @09:23PM (#22041227)
According to Google, the US minimum wage is $7.25. $7.25 * 40 = $290/fulltime week. Tens of millions surviving on less must be an exaggeration?
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Re:Education and Men without Work by xyzzyz on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:07PM (#22041433)
No. 40 million Americans live for less than that, and half of that lives on less than half that.

https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/m#/faq/what-current-poverty-rate...

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Re:Education and Men without Work by fires10 on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:18PM (#22041491)
That is interesting. I will need to look into it more. Household size can skew the numbers with children involved. I could not rent a place and get food and other things like that for that amount. Also unemployment runs out after 6 months.
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