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what is the NATIONAL average for poverty lovel status?
I believed, at one time, that is was appx. $16,000.00/year...However if that is the case, why is it that the minimum wage of $6.50 that is NATIONALLY recognized, is well under poverty level, adding up to, before taxes $13,520? Is our own government letting the people who can only get jobs for minumum wage(which 42% of all jobs in America are min. wage) slide into the poverty level for some sort of reason? Do they care that the standards they set, set us at under thier own set poverty level? Why the contradiction? What about income after taxes, is the poverty level set to before taxes or after? Does anyone care about this? Can we do anything about it? Will our government listen, anyway?
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- Anonymous2 decades agoFavorite Answer
Poverty level for a single person today is $9800, according to the official government site listed below. That number is actually much higher than most of the rest of the world, where poverty guidelines can be as low as $800 per year. $13,520 isn't a comfortable living, but it's something. I don't know where you got your statistics, but it is not true that 42% of jobs are minimum wage. That's way off. More importantly, most minimum wage jobs are starting jobs, where young workers learn skills, and within a few years are earning more.
Don't forget, every time we raise the minimum wage, we make it more expensive to hire people, and reduce the total number of jobs that will be available.
Source(s): http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/06poverty.shtml http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/05/art2full.pdf - Anonymous2 decades ago
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