Saerah Gray wrote:
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> I make less than that 28 G raise, and while we don't go without anything
> basic, I don't have room in my budget for much in the way of extras or
> savings. I don't know how anyone making minimum wage (currently about
> half of what I make per hour) gets by at all.

I can sympathize. My point was that, while blocking increases in the
federal minimum wage, the same legislative body voted themselves a
number of raises that amounted to more than double the annual wage of
minimum wage workers, and of course the raises were on top of the hefty
salaries they were already making.