Poverty in America

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Only in terms of taxes taken out.

MW, full-time, with ZERO dollars removed for taxes, is 15,080/year.
That's 40/hours a week, 52/weeks a year.

That's federal MW, some states have higher MW, but for fast (and somewhat sloppy) math, assume full-time workers work 2000 hrs a year. So 10/hr would only raise pre-tax income to 20K/year, for full-time workers (meaning takehome might be around 17K)