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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
Yeah
Maybe
But I guarantee you that if I go and work for this Minte and I wanted to do better than living dying @ $9.50, he'd give me that chance if I wasn't a complete fuck up. Why in the name of christ walking on the moon should anyone be FORCED to pay someone more than they're willing to accept- ever? If people HAD TO BE WORTH A FUCK, they'd make more and actually do something. People right now can show up, manage to not fall asleep for eight hours and walk out with enough to exist on.
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There is no "yeah maybe" It's true.
For a family of three, the poverty line in federal fiscal year 2013 is $1,591 a month. Thus, 130 percent of the poverty line for a three-person family is $2,069 a month, or $24,828 a year.
$9.50/hr is $19,760/yr. Well under the $24k line it takes to get approved for food stamps.
$11.75/hr is still low enough to qualify for foodstamps.
I'm not saying anyone needs to be forced to pay anyone any amount of money.
I was just pointing out that Minte said "I hope no one in our organization needs government assistance."
This kind of thinking seems to me that he's naive to the struggles of people at that level of income. That's all.