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The new wage lifts two-thirds of the workforce above Mexico’s family #povertyline, & above Mexico’s #minimumwage of about $1.71 per hour. A proposed nationwide shift to a 40-hour workweek without a reduction in pay (Mexico’s workweek is currently capped at 48 hours) would also mark a significant advance.
https://labornotes.org/2025/04/unmoved-tariff-threats-mexican-gm-workers-win-double-digit-wage-hike
#Mexico #GeneralMotors #LaborMovement #organize #autoworkers #Solidarity Silao #Guanajuato #unions SINTTIA
Labor Notes · Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage HikeMexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 percent,” said Norma Leticia Cabrera Vasquez about management’s offer at bargaining. “We knew they were going to show up with that, but we said, ‘We still have weeks to negotiate, so we won’t let that intimidate us,’” said Cabrera Vasquez, who worked at the plant for 15 years, and now serves as a leader of the union’s Women’s Department.
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Raising Jobseeker to $80 per day—in line with the Raise the Rate campaign—and indexing it to keep up with wages would cost $9.5 billion per year.
This a fraction of the cost of superannuation tax concessions ($50 billion per year) or the Capital Gains Tax discount ($15 billion), both of which mainly benefit the richest Australians.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/jobseeker-payments-are-too-low/
The Australia Institute · Jobseeker payments are too lowNo-one in Australia should have to live on $56 a day. The current Jobseeker payment is inadequate by every metric, and the majority of families that rely on it live below the poverty line.
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While some issues are being discussed, one isnt HECS DEBT. We can talk about having a beer with the Prime ministerial candidates but not EDUCATION costs and spiralling debt.
While we’re at it. UNEMPLOYED? Has the living allowance been raised? At all, does it match inflation? Is it below the poverty line?
#PubTest / #PrimeMinister / #HexDebt / #HECSDebt / #HECS / #University / #Unemployed / #PovertyLine / #LivingWage / #LukasCoch / AAP <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/from-babysitting-to-keeping-a-secret-the-pm-is-preferred-but-it-is-the-literal-pub-test-where-albo-stands-out>
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Line 24: Tell em bout the POVERTY line boss!
You step outside this b*tch you bound to get shot up. The speaker flaunts his mental capacity & lyrical ability revealing he's not only deeply intelligent but also culturally savvy. #PovertyLine #CulturalSavvy #PopCulture #LifeMovie #SystemicOppression
“Our world, in which the top 1% own more than the 95% combined, in which we’re on course for five trillionaires within a decade, is not on course to end #poverty soon, nor to meet the scale of the #climatecrisis”.
The number of people living under the $6.85 #povertyline today is in fact close to what it was in 1990, he said.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/01/world-rich-get-richer-poor-get-poorer-billionaires-rise/
Inter Press Service · A World Where Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer -- and Billionaires RisePerhaps one of the UN’s most ambitious and longstanding projects – the launching of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)– is aimed, among other things, at helping developing nations eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. But that elusive goal has made little or no significant progress. And now comes a new report from Oxfam, “Takers Not Makers” …
#Memoir contradicts #Republican #Senatecandidate’s ‘below the #povertyline’ tale
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/tim-sheehy-republican-senate-montana
#Montana’s #TimSheehy claims he and wife lived in #poverty but own #book reveals he had $400,000 to build #company
The Guardian · Memoir contradicts Republican Senate candidate’s ‘below the poverty line’ tale
A reddit post i’ve stumbled across today - from the male of a 26yr old American couple.
They’ve had to make a heart wrenching decision give up their child for adoption, because today’s economy and the lack of government support for those doing it touch mean they can’t survive and provide for their child even on the bare minimum.
I hate to think how many Aussies might find themselves considering such an awful choice.
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Ok folks.... I'm going to try to create two hashtags.
The #PovertyLine is obvious to everyone. Nobody should fall below the poverty line!
The #WealthLine is the new concept we must push everywhere in media, politics, economics, etc. Nobody should be allowed above the wealth line, Nobody. And, if you're afraid of the #WealthLine , then you're selfish and not really interested in a more equitable and sustainable world.
Let's push this concept, folks. Especially, let's push it on our politicians!
𓅠 No increase to base jobseeker rate in budget means Centrelink payment remains below poverty line
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/may/16/australia-federal-budget-2024-jobseeker-centrelink-payments-welfare-services-australia
This latest federal budget offers little hope to unemployed people. Again, the government's safety-net is not enough for people left without work by the sad state of the economy. They should raise the dole until it's over the poverty line. Or, even better, offer a real fix in the form of a universal basic income.
The Guardian · No increase to base jobseeker rate in budget means Centrelink payment remains below poverty line
“Completely Legal” $4.20 p/hour (*wage theft )
At $1,002.50 a fortnight for a single person, the DSP is higher than jobseeker, but still well below the poverty line (approximately $1,204 in 2023).
* minimum wage $23.23 an hour
#povertyline #breadline #workingpoor #minimumwage #NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) #DSP (Disability Support Pension) #JobSeeker
#RaiseTheRate
Abolish Subminimum Wage
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGVqOu2taAutO7QIK12lYPVGzvn9sZPCc_gaML9LE29KZ7kw/viewform
The Guardian · Larry was paid $4.20 an hour in Australia. It’s not enough to live on – but it’s completely legal
American Geography
Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled to hundreds of high poverty communities across the United States, concentrating on areas with poverty rates above 20%. He discovered that he could travel from coast to coast without ever crossing above this poverty line, through 46 states.
American Geography
Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled to hundreds of high poverty communities across the United States, concentrating on areas with poverty rates above 20%. He discovered that he could travel from coast to coast without ever crossing above this poverty line, through 46 states.
American Geography
Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled to hundreds of high poverty communities across the United States, concentrating on areas with poverty rates above 20%. He discovered that he could travel from coast to coast without ever crossing above this poverty line, through 46 states.
Global News BC: Penticton, B.C. man frustrated with province over clawback of disability payments https://globalnews.ca/news/9423746/penticton-bc-man-frustrated-province-disability-payments/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DisabilityPayments #Okanagandisability #Penticondisability #BCgovernment #CostofLiving #povertyline #penticton #Canada
Global NewsPenticton, B.C. man frustrated with province over clawback of disability payments
Politics, but also life and death
One-third of Americans make less than $15/hour. This includes:
46% of Hispanic/Latinx workers and 47% of Black workers 40% of women in the workforce 57% of working single parents
#raisethewage #blacklivesmatter #povertyline https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/the-crisis-of-low-wages-in-the-us/
www.oxfamamerica.orgThe crisis of low wages in the USNew research reveals that nearly a third of all workers in the US earn under $15 an hour. But women and people of color do much more than their fair share of low-wage jobs.