claim: "on (the federal minimum wage of) $7.75, you can’t even make half the poverty level."
author: jim mcdermott
evidence_1: may 8, 2014 ... y., touted one of president barack obama's key agenda items -- raising the  federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour. ... half-true ·  schumer. if you work 40 hours a week at the proposed minimum wage of $10.10  an hour, "you get out of poverty." — charles schumer on monday, may 5th ...
evidence_2: feb 8, 2017 ... recent improvements to the federal eitc and the federal child tax credit (ctc),  as well as less recent increases in the federal minimum wage, have helped .... it  kept 6.5 million people — over half of them children — out of poverty in 2015, and  helped many with slightly higher incomes make ends meet.
evidence_3: jul 22, 2016 ... more than half are women. 7. the federal minimum wage for tipped workers is  even lower. it's only $2.13 – and it hasn't been raised since 1991. bonus fact:  seven recipients of the nobel prize in economic sciences say it's the smart thing  and the right thing to do. share this if you agree it's time to ...
evidence_4: jul 21, 2014 ... if servers were minimum wage workers, the vast majority would thus make even  less than they currently do. considering that the poverty rate for tipped workers is  more than double that of non-tipped workers, that's a potentially catastrophic  situation for a not-insignificant percentage of the american labor ...
evidence_5: nov 9, 2017 ... as the trump administration guts spending on marketing campaigns for  obamacare, aiming (unsuccessfully) to undercut enrollment, tech companies are  launching their own campaigns to promote insurance plans offered under the  affordable care act.