posted ago by AustinTX
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If you’re a single mom working minimum wage, the reduced lunch program cutoff is $23,107 yearly income. Well, congratulations, your minimum wage full time job is now $15/hr. You now make $30,000 a year. Your child no longer qualifies for reduced school lunches.
Oh and what about food for your child at home? The SNAP income limit is $2311 for a single mom. You now make $2400.
Single mothers no longer quality for food assistance for them or their child working minimum wage.
Congratulations FL. You played yourself on that one. And I’m a FL pede
Oh for sure. When Washington raised the minimum wage they kept it just below poverty limits so people like single mothers could still get food assistance for their child.
Florida voters forgot about that and with the $15/hr minimum it puts everyone working full time above all poverty limits.
Short sighted idiots
As a native Floridian who moved to Austin?
Texas is still very Texas. It’s all about perspective. To Texans, Austin is very liberal compared to the rest of Texas so they make a huge deal about it.
Austin compared to Orlando? Orlando is 100000x more liberal than Austin. I honestly don’t think it’s possible for Austin to get to the liberal level of Orlando ever. Even the most diehard liberals here love guns, bbq, and think covid is a joke.
I fucking love it here. I’m self taught no college and working an IT job in Maitland I was pulling 45k living with roomies in Oviedo cause I couldn’t afford to live anywhere remotely near downtown Orlando.
Here in Austin, doing a lower tier IT job I started at 70k and have a luxury apartment downtown by myself literally above the best nightlife for $1560 a month. To Austin, $1560 for an apartment is insanely high. Remember.... perspective.
And that was just my first job offer I didn’t bother to look I just took the first that hired me. Now that I’ve been here almost 2 years I’m quite sure I can find one making 90k+ with my experience from Florida getting a position more equal to my skill set.
Well, that's something to be positive about.
They do if you're not working. <insert black guy pointing to head meme>
there are very public policies that hurt poor people more than raising the minimum wage.
When did we start wanting handouts? Sure this will make businesses eliminate minimum wage jobs and sure people will lose benefits. I would honestly rather make $15 then relying on the government for a handout.
I dont agree with the minimum wage hike but this is a poor argument.
No more food assistance and a higher cost of living.
Raising the minimum wage to $15 will actually make people poorer.
I agree, just saying having to be on government assistance is bullshit too