What is the minimum wage where you live?
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Originally Posted by 2000SilverBullet
Most are petitioning for a minimum $10. wage.
How can anyone survive on $8 an hour :?: Can't even afford an education to better oneself at that wage.
It'* even less when you factor in the taxes.
You can go on welfare and make the same for doing nothing......more if you have a child. I know some women that have multiple children just to collect more welfare money. Others have Grow Ops to supplement it. That'* just wrong
How can anyone survive on $8 an hour :?: Can't even afford an education to better oneself at that wage.
It'* even less when you factor in the taxes.
You can go on welfare and make the same for doing nothing......more if you have a child. I know some women that have multiple children just to collect more welfare money. Others have Grow Ops to supplement it. That'* just wrong
minimum wage is ment as a base to get started on. the idea is to start and work your way up. my first job i worked at minimum. it wasn't great but it got me by. second and following jobs i worked my way up higher up the 'food chain' and no longer live on minimum
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From: Sauk Centre, MN
$5.25 here in MN. ..... Yeah, I do struggle a little bit considering my wage at the winery (not as much as you'd expect considering my only benefit is drinking on the job -required) so I picked up a part time job which pays 9.00/hr and that is also 65 miles round trip.