Conservatives POUNCE after Elizabeth Warren claims a family of 3 in the 1950s could live on $1 an hour
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2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted that the minimum wage when she was a kid could support a family of 3:
Back when I was a kid, a minimum-wage job could support a family of three. Today, a full-time minimum-wage job in America won’t keep a mama and a baby out of poverty. Our movement is about making real, fundamental change to fix this.
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Warren was born in 1949, so we’re talking about the 1950s when the minimum wage was $1 an hour:
$1.00 an hour supported a family of three in the 1950s?
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And her comes the POUNCING!
I had to look up the minimum wage for all of the years that she could call herself "a kid". I can't imagine how (even back then) $40 a week could support a family of 3.
So I checked with my mom, who was born in '32. She says it wouldn't.
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Yeah 1950s Oklahoma was just awash in wealth. Life was so much better then. Make America 1950s Oklahoma Again!
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When I was a kid my single mom’s minimum wage job couldn’t support us so she got a second job — and worked hard to move up the ladder and provide for me. Now she’s a successful accountant and a self-made woman. This isn’t the govt’s problem to “fix.”
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This is most certainly not true. I made $3.35 an hour, which was minimum wage in the early eighties. I could never have supported myself, let alone a family. Perhaps you meant to say this differently?
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Back when you were a kid, the minimum wage had the same purchasing power as $11 an hour has today. It was never enough to support a family of three.
By the way, the poverty rate in 1964, when you were 15, was 19%. In 2017 it was 12.3%.
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Back when you were a kid in OK, the fed. minimum wage was around $1. I doubt anyone was supporting a family of three. And no one is supporting a family of three on the real minimum wage, which is $0.
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The minimum wage in 1960 was $1.00/hr. Adjusted for inflation, that is $8.57. Assume 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, and you get $17,825 pre-tax. Federal poverty line for 3 person households is $21,330. Add in EITC, SNAP, Section 8, etc and you're more than there.
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Conservatives POUNCE after Elizabeth Warren claims a family of 3 in the 1950s could live on $1 an hour
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