$28.34 per hour

[Emit]

[Cerridwen]

1. Kick to go with my rec. n/t

[Flagrante]

23. How about $83.65 per hour

$83.65/hr. That's how much a $174,000 Congress Critter salary works out to at 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year; just for comparison mind you.

/Of course, they don't work a 40 hour week or a 52 week year.
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[etherealtruth]

2. k and R

[angstlessk]

3. I'll give this one a kick too

[Aldo Leopold]

4. kick 'n' rec.

damn straight.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Keywords: Income Disparity; Income Inequality, wage gap; minimum wage

Writing descriptions that include keywords helps your image/graphic get much greater visibility in the search engines.

[the_sly_pig]

6. I'd like to make that per hour.

Just sayin.

[westerebus]

7. Rec

[JDPriestly]

8. And Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, education and all other programs would be fully funded.

[paleotn]

9. Yes! A living wage!! nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Looking forward to seeing "Inequality for All"

http://inequalityforall.com/

[Cleita]

11. That would be a middle class living wage today.

Time for the 99% to get union active and make it happen.

[icarusxat]

28. Don't you mean make it happen again?

Strong union=strong middle class

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. KICKS AND RECS from me! n/t

[easychoice]

13. It's about $16.00 an hour to live here if you are single in Seattle.

If you include rent, car and insurance, medical and food.Our minimum wage here is $9.16 p.h. by law.

Some links from M.I.T.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/


http://livingwage.mit.edu/states/53/locations

[grahamhgreen]

14. kick

[Egalitarian Thug]

15. That's about $115K annual gross in a two income household.

Gives a bit of perspective of just how much they take from you.

[99Forever]

16. K&R

[leftstreet]

17. DURec

[madville]

18. I make $23.59 an hour and things are tight

No overtime allowed, straight 40 hours a week. It's just me and my teenage son as well. After everything out of my check I take home $2500 a month, can't really save anything.

I was making $17 an hour ten years ago and it feels like I have about the same standard of living.

[WillyT]

19. K & R !!!

[AzDar]

20. Kick & Rec

[Iwillnevergiveup]

21. Now that's more like it.

Especially for 2-income families. But many of those peeps are not making that kind of money now even with 2 adults working.

K&R

[CrispyQ]

22. Thanks for posting. I love that stat as it really puts it in perspective for the working person.

This thread needs this video, too. It's a 6.5 minute video - a little long, but worth it. It's amazing what people think wealth distribution is, compared to what it actually is.

Back in 2004, that $28.34 stat was just barely $23.00. So if minimum wage had to go up $5 to keep up, can you imagine how much CEO pay is now?

[Emit]

29. Thank you, CrispyQ, for adding that video

I have read about this study (or one similar) about what people think wealth distribution is versus what it actually is but had never seen this particular video. It's very well done and I will pass it on. Definitely a good addition to this thread!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

24. Just another K&R!

[lpbk2713]

25. And they say unions are a bad thing.

My ass.

The rest of us should get contracts like the 1%ers get.

[BlueJazz]

26. In the past year, I've gotten into some severe "matches" with anti-union people.

They bring up all the lies and bullshit from the Republicans.
...and in a few cases (after trying to have a nice discussion...and failing) , I just say "You fucking dumb-asses are going to kill us all"

[lpbk2713]

27. That's what they get from drinking the Kool-Aid.

The GOP has been beating that same old anti-labor drum for generations now.
Damn shame how people want to listen to this bullshit rather than the truth.