Priorities on SNAP
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When I started working in 97 minimum wage was 4.50 an hr.
In 67 when I started it was $.95 an hour. And happy to get it back then.
gas was also 33 cents a gallon. I remember during the gas lines during the carter administration gas was around 70 or 80 cents a gallon. So since 1967 minimum wage has only gone up 6.30 cents, but everything else skyrockets.
I pumped gas in 1970 during deer hunting season and we had gas at .25/gal. People were filling 50 gal drums to take to deer camps. Good times.
I used to go grocery shopping with my mom at that time. She'd buy a week's worth of food for about twenty five dollars. Around that time we were in a bank, and the tellers told people to line up at a certain window if they were depositing or cashing welfare checks. Right out loud announcement, would probably get arrested for that now.
in 88 it was 3.35 I was lucky and got a job making five dollars an hour I did alright. Now federal minimum waage is 7.25 an hour in in 37 years it's gone up $3.90. I had taken a part time job for some extra pay back in 08 that was the minimum wage back then too.