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!!!
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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
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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
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Not all McDonalds start at that, it varies by franchise decision, there are quite a few that start at minimum wage, $7.25/hr.
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The specific starting wage doesn't really matter, my point was that most companies that are demonized because of how poorly they pay will provide an income higher than the poverty line (if you work full time) as a starting wage. With this in mind, it becomes difficult to believe that many people (outside of really bad regions like Detroit) are living on less than the poverty line unless they are choosing to (on some level).
