#working-poor — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #working-poor, aggregated by home.social.
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“It might be shit to you.
But it’s bread and butter to me, mate.”
- a toilet cleaner’s motto(Interview) Hayat Elhore cleaner at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Lisa Stenson hospital cleaner in Ireland. -
“professional-managerial class” / “The Party of Baristas”
(Noam Sceiber’s Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class. 2026 Book Review)https://dissentmagazine.org/article/mutiny-college-educated-working-class-book-review/
#Capitalism #educationworkers #labourmovement #minimumwage #workingclasshistory #workingpoor
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$25 minimum wage fight in #Nome - rural Alaska https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-teenage-girls-behind-a-25-minimum-wage-fight-in-rural-alaska/
Original article
https://19thnews.org/2026/08/nome-alaska-minimum-wage-november-ballot/#Alaska #firstnations #GenZ #labourmovement #minimumwage #organize #solidarity #workingpoor
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Hey, let's talk about some dangerous numbers. The federal unemployment rate, reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, counts people who do not have jobs, are available for work and actively seeking employment. The #BLS reported a 4.1% #unemployment rate for July 2026.
The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, or #LISEP, measures people without jobs, workers who want full-time work but are employed part time involuntarily, and workers earning less than $26,000 a year before taxes.
LISEP reported a functional unemployment rate of 24.9% in July, six times higher than the federal figure.
If a quarter of your working age population cannot find labor that allows them shelter, food and necessities, then you are sitting on a powder keg.
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#Money, the interesting thing about it is if you #exist in #poverty, you desperately need it for your day to day survival, then if your on the opposite end as in being a multi million or billionaire in reality money means nothing, because everything you own and do is leveraged off of debt that you one don't actually own and second can never actually satisfy, and the rules of the game are very different for those in poverty, and the rules are slightly different if your in the middle, but if your on top, the rules don't apply to you unless somehow your generation and hoarding of wealth imposes upon another top income holder, basically if your in poverty all the way to the bottom end of double digit millions, your beholden to the entire state if it where, and beyond that the entire state apparently is beholden to you and your ability to leverage debt, it is a rigged system of epic inequality and strongly embraces prejudice against the rest of us whom simply would appreciate the basics in life to be readily available without so much turmoil, and stress to our mental and physical wellbeing, money is an illusion of power and has left far to many of us going hungry, literally;
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#Austerity #Awareness #BrokenSystem #Capitalism #Change #ChronicPoverty #CorporateGreed #CriticalThinking #DailyStruggle #DebtSlavery #DisabledVoices #DisabilityJustice #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #EconomicViolence #Economics #Education #ExistentialThought #Financial #FinancialTrauma #FinanciallyDistressed #FoodInsecurity #Hunger #Homelessness #HumanCost #IllusionOfWealth #Inequality #Justice #LateStageCapitalism #MarginalizedVoices #MentalHealthMatters #MutualAid #Neoliberalism #Oligarchy #PhilosophyOfMoney #Plutocracy #Politics #PovertyAwareness #PowerAndControl #PowerDynamics #RealTalk #Reform #RiggedSystem #SocialCommentary #SocialEconomicWarfare #SocialJustice #Society #Solidarity #SpeakTruth #StatusQuo #SupportDisabled #Survival #SystemicOppression #SystemicPoverty #TaxTheRich #TruthBomb #TruthToPower #WakeUpCall #WealthGap #WealthInequality #WorkingClass #WorkingPoor
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Women #Chainmakers' Strike in #CradleyHeath, England, August 23, 1910 - October 22, 1910, when the final employers agreed to pay the #minimumwage
https://www.womenchainmakers.org.uk/
https://neu.org.uk/latest/library/mary-macarthur-and-cradley-heath-women-chainmakers-strike-1910
https://voyagerofhistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/15/the-women-chainmakers-strike-of-1910/
#marymacarthur #strikes #womenworkers #workingclasshistory #workingpoor
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https://jacobin.com/2026/08/gig-economy-labor-rights-workers
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uber-rideshare-exploitation-unions-organizing
CGWU
https://www.seiu521.org/press-release/california-gig-drivers-win-unionApp Drivers & Couriers Union https://adcu.org.uk/
Rideshare Drivers United
https://www.drivers-united.org/New York Taxi Workers
https://www.nytwa.orgLDU app-based delivery workers in New York City.
https://www.workersjustice.org/en/lduDigital Workers Inquiry
https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry?ILO on “Platform Economy”
https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/2026-06/ILC114-Instrument%20C.193-EN.pdf -
1 July 2026 Australian National #MinimumWage is $26.44 per hour or $1004.90 per week
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages -
Sub/below minimum wage is bloody desperate / stressful as https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/could-you-live-on-jobseeker-payments/106866554
#AUWU #dole #JobSeeker #minimumwage #poverty #unwagedworkers #workfordole #workingpoor
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#Capitalism (3) Forensic Food #Science
Outrageous: #profits = #stolenwages
(Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” eg #LabourHire racket. )
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But it’s legal to rip-off a million or two
That comes from the labour that other folk do;
To plunder the many on behalf of the few
Is a thing that is perfectly legal.
- Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger (1977) *(Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour.” )
* Audio of Legal/illegal song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wbjZDtR2e0&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD#Capitalism #exploitation #minimumwage #slavery #workingpoor
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Australia's highest-paid executive collected almost $48 million in the 2025 financial year / about 500 TIMES the full-time average wage.
The average ASX100 CEO earned about 55 TIMES more than the average wage earner in FY2025.For workers not so much: $50K per year
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages#Capitalism #minimumwage #richpeoplesyachtmoney #workingpoor
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From Keelin Fisher: “Nearly 17% of New Mexico households were living below the federal poverty level in 2024, according to the report. The remaining 26%, defined as ALICE, made more than the federal poverty level — about $31,200 annually — but not enough to afford basic needs.”
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$2.13 sub-minimumwage since 1991 https://cepr.net/publications/the-2-13-subminimum-wage-when-is-enough-enough/
Note: 2009, Congress increased Federal #minimumwage to $7.25 per hour with the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. It has not been increased since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States(51 State’s Minimum wage rates )
https://stateandfederalposter.com/pages/2026-state-minimum-wage-rates? -
Capos are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/big-tech-built-a-gig-economy-that-works-against-us/
How low can you go go go ? (Capo Limbo)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb?#Capitalism #exploitation #gigeconomy #minimumwage #surveillance #workingpoor
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Working Families Party
Is this American political party the answer?
https://davevolek.medium.com/working-families-party-b246ed99087c?sk=8ca584397eb2fd3464a3be18c8acd98e
#tiereddemocraticgovernance
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20 richest Capitalists now hoard more stolen wealth … while the bottom 3 million #workingpoor households struggle to put food on the table.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/02/australian-billionaires-richer-than-last-year(Note 2025 National #MinimumWage was $24.95 per hour or $948 per week)
10am Tuesday June 2026 … Per hour ?
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/workplace-laws/annual-wage-review/annual-wage-review-2026 -
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Safeway, Walmart, and Amazon capitalists benefitted billions $ from Trump’s tax cuts while their wage-slaves struggle to buy food.
