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The US minimum wage calculation was based on a crude estimation that was never intended to be used for policymaking. At the time groceries cost 1/3 of the total household income. Now there are so many more costs that that leaves thousands of families too "rich" to get government assistance but too poor to afford to survive. These are the ALICE households https://www.unitedforalice.org/meet-alice https://www.unitedforalice.org/ 🧵3/4