Wall Street Protests

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Raze said:

HappySqurriel said:

VGhippy said:

Laurel Aitken said:

 

Right nowthe people considered poor in the USA are people with an anual income of less than $22,350 USD. That's not poor in most of the rest of the world!!!

Just to be fair that is the income for a family of 4 to be considered poor by the government, not individuals :P

Edit: For a sole individual in their own household it is under 11k

 

source: http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/11poverty.shtml

Being that McDonalds' starting wage is $8.30/hour, which works out to being (roughly) $16,500/year for a full time employee, how many individuals really earn less than $11,000/year unless they choose to? While it is not really an ideal thing, when I was younger the people I knew who didn't go to school often had 2 jobs (working in the range of 55+ hours per week) at a higher wage than that (this would be about 10 years ago), so I personally find it difficult to believe than many people are forced to live off of that little money

Not all McDonalds start at that, it varies by franchise decision, there are quite a few that start at minimum wage, $7.25/hr.

Which is like... 15,000 a year.

You should see what they pay a Mcdonalds employee in North Dakota though.  It's crazy.