Regardless, what I said was correct. A person can work full time and still fall well within poverty guidelines for a family of 4 which means they would still qualify for subsidies.
no, you're factually wrong. full time employment at Walmart is the higher earners. So factually you're incorrect.
They could make $13 and not hit poverty level.
didn't say they couldn't, but the ones making the higher salaries are the educated ones, with experience. again, you miss the objective and points for everyone.
Sure, I get it. Everyone needs to start off with experience to make enough to live on.
I think most of us can say we made minimum wage at one time. I had several jobs where I earned that. But as I went on, I got better paying jobs with good references which I gained through those low paying jobs. I got my first apartment at the age of 20. My wage was about double of minimum. Even at that, I didn't have a lot of extra money to spend, and I put in about 10 hours a week of OT.
So this scenario of yours about a person raising a family of four is nothing new. It didn't just start happening a year or so ago. It's always been like that. If OT was not available, I had two jobs; at one point, three jobs in my life. Many times I worked six or seven days a week. For some reason, that's not heard of today. If people can't make it on what a job pays, blame industry, cry to government, use social programs, but don't do anything about your own plight.