# People on SNAP would be greatly reduced if minimum wage had kept up.

[applegrove]

This is for your maga moron "by their bootstraps" uncle in Pennsylvania.

— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) 2025-10-30T20:45:38.853Z

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[multigraincracker]

2. We still have the best government money can buy.

[Wounded Bear]

3. But it's far more fun to just cut the program and let them eat cake...

Wait, that's not it's truth.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

4. only one party cares about minimum wage

and it ain't republicans

seems like that rot bin of liberals Seattle is the only one coming close to this $20.76

Portland OR is $15.75

New York city $16.50

Huntsville Alabama $7.25 =national minimum wage
Palm Beach Florida =$14

Minimum wage is a disgusting term that should not be applied to anyone except maybe mr orange stable genius....

Even at 15-20 and hour you are not even close to living by yourself in Portland or Seattle and you may STILL need assistance cause that is not a real living wage in either City !!!!!!!

[Celerity]

13. The eight Senate Democratic caucus members who voted 'no' on $15 minimum wage (2021)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220761282#post12

[questionseverything]

17. Illinois is $15./hour

[essaynnc]

5. So what you're saying...

Is that SNAP benefits are more of a corporate subsidy than anything else? Add that to the list. Wasn't it $600 in corporate subsidies and $7 for SNAP out of every average person 's tax? Make that $607 !!!!

[Chasstev365]

6. Yep: If you work 40 + hours a week and still qualify for Food Stamps, the system is entering French Revolution territory

[moniss]

7. Amen. nt

[mucifer]

8. Out of desperation for jobs people are going to join ice.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Oh there ya go

Adding “these are the facts.” Ya totally lost lil Mikey Johnson

[jojog]

10. The Social Security system would also be taking in more money NT

[applegrove]

11. So true.

[Celerity]

12. The eight Senate Democratic caucus members who voted 'no' on $15 minimum wage (2021)

One of President Biden’s top policy goals, an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, suffered a big setback Friday when eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted against it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541860-the-eight-democrats-who-voted-no-on-15-minimum-wage/

An effort by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to waive a procedural objection to adding the $15 minimum wage to a COVID-19 relief package was resoundingly defeated by a vote of 58-42 in which seven Democrats and one independent joined all 50 Republicans.

Here are the eight members of the Senate Democratic Conference who voted against the $15 minimum wage:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)



Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.)

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.)

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.)

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)

[wiggs]

14. GREAT POINT. Same for social security and other worker-funded programs. If wages had kept up

with growth, productivity, corporate profits, inflation, etc...there would be more money available for safety nets, infrastructure projects, debt reduction, etc.

As planned...BTW...back in the 80's when SS calcs were made to kept SS afloat based on an assumed wage growth that never happened to the degree anticipated. Wage growth was slower.

[applegrove]

16. Another transfer of wealth to the rich.