We are talking about the present not when the minimum wage was $5.25. I mentioned my mother's income in 2012 (when I last lived with her), not 1999, for example.

You talk of 1993-2012, same as me. I have been an adult for 5 years, and my brother for 8 years. So my mothers income in 2012 has very little impact on anyones lives but herself.

You talked of high school and growing up as I have.

You said something along the lines of " I guarantee my mother made less than yours." In 2012 the minimum wage was 7.25, a five to three job implies greater than full time at minimum wage which contradicts your first statement. Then you mentioned the minimum wage in 1999.

.I was talking of 1993-2012. I guarantee she made less money, and has had less benefits during that time.

Then i made an unnecessary tangent to October 2015. Sorry for the confusion.

How can you guarantee that when my mother was working the same minimum wage in all those years and fewer hours if the last years estimate you gave me is correct. Like I said my mother is and always had been in the bottom 10% income wise.

Last years are the first time she kept the same job for more then one year. Often she had no job, and siphoned money from other relatives. I think we would have been bottom 1% for many years. She probably got fired from the same McDonald's  3 or 4 times and she never took on a full time job.

Some years we have been evicted and had to live with uncles, grandparents, great grandparents.