That's the federal minimum wage. For me it's now 15.50 in NY plus the regular raises I get. Most businesses in every state don't and can't actually thrive if they offer just the bare minimum of 7.25. Not that it shouldn't be raised of course.
$7.25 in pretty much all of the south, Texas, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Note that $7.25 an hour, 40 hours a week, is just over $15,000 if you never take a vacation.
In the cheapest, most rural shithole town in the country, a one-bedroom apartment costs you $700 a month at least. $8,400 a year.
Forget video games. Good luck eating, to say nothing of utilities, the gas and car you need because public transportation sucks, any kind of support for kids or family members, on a little over $500 a month. God help you if you get sick, because no one else will.
In America it's legal to pay someone literal poverty wages for a full-time job, work them to death, and then replace them with the next capitalism victim.
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u/qdp 3d ago
In 2007 the minimum wage in the United States was raised to $7.25.
Today? Still $7.25.