The Declining Value of The US Federal Minimum Wage
This graphic illustrates the history of the U.S. federal minimum wage using data compiled by Statista, in both nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) terms. The federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 per hour in July 2009, where it has remained ever since.
Nominal vs. Real Value
The data Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu used to create this graphic can be found in the table below.
What our graphic shows is how inflation has eroded the real value of the U.S. minimum wage over time, despite nominal increases.
For instance, consider the year 1960, when the federal minimum wage was $1 per hour. After accounting for inflation, this would be worth around $10.28 today!
The two lines converge at 2023 because the nominal and real value are identical in present day terms.
Many States Have Their Own Minimum Wage
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), 30 states and Washington, D.C. have implemented a minimum wage that is higher than $7.25.
The following states have adopted the federal minimum: Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Meanwhile, the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee have no wage minimums, but have to follow the federal minimum.
How Does the U.S. Minimum Wage Rank Globally?
If you found this topic interesting, check out Mapped: Minimum Wage Around the World to see which countries have the highest minimum wage in monthly terms, as of January 2023.
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FDA Warns Of High Seizure Risk For Children During First Few Days After Receiving Covid-19 Jabs by Moderna And Pfizer-Biontech
Since hardly a child in the universe faces the threat of death from Covid-19, why take the risk of getting an mRNA “vaccine” for it, when those jabs pose a “significantly elevated” seizure risk? One thing is for sure, the old vaccine slogans of “benefit outweighs the risk” and “safe and effective” are both out the window. In fact, according to a new study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the incidence of febrile seizures was nearly three times higher for children within ONE DAY after getting the Moderna mRNA stab than the same kids a week to two months after getting the deadly prion jab. The real question is WHY are children having seizures a day after getting the shot for the Fauci Flu, and why are these shots still legal to dish out?
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA stabs both pose elevated febrile seizure risk for children immediately following injection
During a febrile seizure, a child is prone to serious injury (and possible death) due to loss of consciousness and uncontrollable movements. During the seizure, if the child falls from a height, or happens to be swimming, the seizure could result in horrible health consequences. There’s also a risk of suffocation during seizures, especially for toddlers during sleep. Plus, after an initial febrile seizure, long-term effects can include neurologic sequelae, epilepsy, and death (with a child mortality rate indicated at 24 percent), though mainstream medicine tries to play this down. Data shows up to a 70 percent risk of recurrence of febrile seizure within the first two years following the first one.
Data for the FDA study of mRNA-vaccine-induced febrile seizures in children came from several commercial databases, including CVS Health, Optum and Carelon Research, compiled from the case files of children 2 to 5 years young. The study was conducted after the researchers identified convulsions and seizures happening frequently among children shortly after getting either the Pfizer or Moderna spike prion stab. The conclusions were rather definitive, with the results ensuring that the seizures, according to researcher’s quote, “are more likely to be associated with vaccination rather than other causes.”
Of the 88 febrile seizures that took place with children who got the Pfizer jab, seven of them happened the DAY OF or the DAY AFTER vaccination. It doesn’t take a doctor or a scientist to figure out that the jabs are deadly and that the child’s body is all out rejecting them. There were 67 cases of febrile seizures documented from the Moderna stab, and ten of those happened within the two-day window.
All seizures that happened two to seven days after vaccinations were EXCLUDED from the primary analysis. Due to mounting pressure from so many more cases popping up after the two-day window, researchers conducted a secondary analysis, using a full seven day risk interval, and you won’t believe what they found. Researchers then identified over 100 children who suffered from febrile seizures and 135 seizure/convulsions from the Pfizer stab. They found 78 children suffered febrile seizures and 106 suffered seizure/convulsions within a week of the Moderna jab.
This is one major reason Big Pharma likes to control their own risk assessments, and prevent any independent labs, doctors or scientists from doing these kinds of studies. If they can control the window of reporting, and exclude the scariest figures, they can coerce more parents into getting their babies and children stabbed with dangerous, experimental mRNA shots, and also lessen the questioning, doubting, fear and skepticism that righteously comes when people find out the truth.
So now, to avoid further exposure of the truth about the dangers of the mRNA vascular-clotting, seizure-inducing stabs, the FDA is authorizing NEW versions from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax, relying on clinical trial data from only 50 cherry-picked humans. Guess who funded that study? The nefarious FDA.
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UK: Record Illegal Migrant Crossings Ramp up Pressure on Sinking Sunak
Britain experienced a record number of illegal migrants arriving on its southern shore in the first three months of the year, piling the pressure on a Conservative government failing to appease its core voters on immigration.
A total of 4,644 migrants landed in southeast England on small boats from Europe up to March 26, according to provisional Home Office data — up considerably from 3,770 last year and the previous record high of 4,162 recorded in 2022.
Boat crossings were down toward the end of last year, prompting Home Secretary James Cleverly to trumpet the government’s efforts in cracking down on illegal immigration and claiming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s administration was honoring its pledge to “stop the boats.”
Cleverly dismissed critics who claimed that adverse weather conditions had been the primary contributing factor to the drop in arrivals; however, the recent spike in arrivals coinciding with warmer weather conditions and plainer sailing appears to lend credence to the theory.
The Home Office is now using the spiraling figures to push its immigration reforms currently held up in the House of Lords — the upper chamber of Britain’s bicameral legislature — claiming a change in the law is needed to ensure deportation flights can take off for Rwanda, the African nation with whom Britain recently signed an asylum agreement.
“The unacceptable number of people who continue to cross the [English] Channel demonstrates exactly why we must get flights to Rwanda off the ground as soon as possible,” a Home Office spokesperson said last week.
Conservative MP Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister who quit the government in December over concerns the Rwanda legislation didn’t go far enough to tackle the migrant crisis, raised fresh fears over the spike in numbers.
“When I resigned last year, I said the government’s approach to illegal migration was a triumph of hope over experience. And so it is proving,” he wrote on X.
“The public rightly demands and expects us to stop the boats. When they say they’ll do ‘whatever it takes,’ the government should mean it.”
Conservative voters in Britain have grown tired of empty promises, however, and appear to be voting with their feet against a party that has consistently promised to reduce immigration while allowing it to sky-rocket to unprecedented levels in recent years.
Recent polling has the governing party attaining almost half the vote share of the opposition Labour Party with 22 percent to 42 percent. A Redfield Wilton survey published on Wednesday made even grimmer reading for Sunak in Wales where the Tories could soon find themselves coming third in a two-horse race, sitting at 16 percent and just one percentage point ahead of the fledgling right-wing Reform UK party run by Brexiteer Richard Tice and closely affiliated with nationalist firebrand Nigel Farage.
Reform UK has called on Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in order to implement measures to prevent arrivals and expedite deportations without vexatious appeals being made in Britain’s immigration tribunals.
The move has been supported by several backbench Conservative MPs including former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, but has not received widescale support among the government.
Last week, Conservative backbencher Andrea Jenkyns asked Sunak during Prime Minister’s Questions whether he would approve a pledge to hold a referendum on leaving the ECHR in the Conservative Party’s manifesto in the upcoming election, a proposal evaded by the U.K. prime minister who replied, “I will not let a foreign court block our ability to send people to Rwanda when the time comes.”
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Israel Declares Major Land Grab in West Bank
The Israeli government has claimed almost 2,000 acres in the West Bank as state-owned land, in a move described by rights groups as the largest land grab on occupied Palestinian territories in decades.
Nevertheless, the growth of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is considered illegal under international law.
In 2016, the United Nations Security Council defined them as “a major obstacle to the vision of two states living side-by-side in peace and security.”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, however, claimed that the declaration of state-owned land in the Jordan Valley on Friday, March 22, was “an important and strategic issue.”
“While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right to Judea and Samaria and the country in general, we promote the settlement movement with hard work and in a strategic manner across the country,” Smotrich said in a statement.
As reported on local media, the classification of plots of land as Israeli government-owned land clears the way for the construction of settler houses, in addition to commercial development.
Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now described the announcement as the biggest since the 1993 Oslo Accords, stating further that “the year 2024 marks a peak in the extent of declarations of state land.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration gave the go-ahead to the recent construction of over 3,400 new settler homes, attracting more criticism from the UN and the Palestinian Authority.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk stated in his report to the Security Council on March 8: “The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet, settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian State.”
Smotrich said in February that the expansion of settlements was a legitimate reaction to Palestinian terrorist attacks.
“Our enemies know that any harm to us will lead to more construction and more development and more of our hold all over the country,” Smotrich wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) account.
The move arrived almost three weeks after the Defense Ministry body that approves settlement construction expedited plans for 3,426 new Israeli homes to be constructed beyond the Green Line.
Settlements Minister Orit Strock announced back then that after a months-long pause in West Bank construction approvals, the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee had boosted projects to build 2,402 new homes in Ma’ale Adumim, 694 homes in Efrat and 330 homes in Keidar.
The projects in Ma’ale Adumim and Keidar were authorized through a previous planning stage called a deposit, while the homes for Efrat acquired a more advanced planning approval before construction.
Smotrich, under whose auspices the subcommittee falls, called the recent expansion an “appropriate Zionist response” to a terror attack outside Ma’ale Adumim, in which one man was killed and 11 were injured, as well as a pregnant woman.
More than 490,000 Israelis are living in settlements across the West Bank
Despite opposition abroad, Israel has in the past few decades developed dozens of settlements across the West Bank.
They are now home to more than 490,000 Israelis, who dwell in the territory along with around three million Palestinians.
The Biden administration stated last month the settlements were “inconsistent” with international law after Israel declared recent housing plans.
Palestinian authorities denounced the land grab and growth of illegal settlements.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the newest move a “crime” that is a portion of an “official policy racing against time to annex the West Bank and eliminate the possibility of creating a Palestinian state.”
“There are no morals, values, principles or international resolutions that can stop the extremist right. The international failure to protect our people is complicity and cover for Israel’s ongoing evasion of punishment,” the ministry said.
The Palestinian Authority has called on all nations to put individuals connected to settler organizations or companies investing in settlement construction across the occupied Palestinian territories on their terror lists. The UN has already compiled a list of companies with business relations in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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No Prohibition on Ukrainian Embassy Recruiting Swedes, Says Stockholm
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sweden is not prohibiting its citizens from participating in military hostilities in Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Thursday when asked about the recruitment of Swedes by the Ukrainian embassy in Stockholm.
“Ukraine’s defense of its territorial integrity is in accordance with International Law. It is not illegal for Swedish citizens to participate in the defense of Ukraine,” the ministry’s spokesman, Tomas Vanecek, said.
Bakhtiyor Rahmonov, a military expert, has said that terrorists who attacked the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow could have been recruited by the Ukrainian embassy in Dushanbe.
According to him, several weeks before the attack, information about inviting foreigners to join the so-called “International Legion” appeared on its website. The same information was published on the website of the Ukrainian Embassy in Stockholm. Citizens of the country can join the formation, there is no specific information about the requirements for potential mercenaries, except for “readiness for hardship”.
The Russian Defense Ministry has said on numerous occasions that the Kiev regime is using foreign mercenaries as “cannon fodder,” warning that the Russian military will continue to destroy them throughout Ukraine.
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US Fails to Share All Data on Terrorist Threat With Russia to Not Reveal Sources – Reports
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US intelligence agencies did not provide the Russian side with all the information they had about the threat of a terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow Region, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing European and US security officials.
The adversarial relations between the US and Russia prevented Washington from sharing more information about the terrorists’ plan beyond what was necessary, as the feared that Russian authorities might learn their intelligence sources or methods of work, the newspaper added.
Moscow is not aware of the information provided by The New Yolk Times that Washington has failed to share all information about the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall with the Russian side, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
“No, we do not know anything. But the information from The New York Times, citing sources, is information that must be treated with great caution in our time,” Peskov told reporters.
A shooting occurred on March 22 in the Crocus City Hall concert venuein the city of Krasnogorsk, just outside Moscow, followed by a massive fire. A Sputnik correspondent who witnessed the attack reported that a number of gunmen in camouflage broke into the music hall, shooting people point-blank and throwing incendiary bombs.
The Russian Investigative Committee said at least 143 people were killed as a result of the terrorist attack.
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