How Many Americans Really Can’t Afford an Emergency?
This meme takes many forms, but where do these numbers on emergency expenses come from and are they accurate?
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Misleading With Inflation Since 1978
Courtesy of The Other 98%, with over 17,000 likes and 50,000 shares. This meme compares various cost of living increases since 1978 with the corresponding changes in wages. According to the meme, important staples have…
Welfare Doesn’t Help Employers Pay Less
Courtesy of The Other 98%, with over 93,000 likes and 82,000 shares. This meme conveys a common theme; that businesses who employ low wage workers benefit from welfare programs, such as food stamps. On the…
We Also Call McBullshit
Courtesy of Liberal America, with over 8,500 likes and 6,000 shares. This meme claims the McDonald’s CEO’s pay tripled to $13.9 million, and infers it’s hypocritical for them not to raise fast food workers wages…
The Seattle Minimum Wage and Prices
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 8,000 likes and 3,400 shares. This meme tries to shoot down the argument that raising the minimum wage results in price increases, by pointing to Seattle and their $15/hr…
Truman and the Minimum Wage
Courtesy of Norcal Fight For 15, with over 700 likes and 8,000 shares. One notable share was The Other 98%, which has over 2 million subscribers. This meme uses the 1950 minimum wage increase under…
Does Raising Minimum Wage Reduce Welfare?
Courtesy of Liberal And Proud Of It, with over 4,800 likes and 10,400 shares. This meme claims it’s a fact that raising the minimum wage will reduce reliance on welfare programs. Of course, there is…
This Isn’t What’s Wrong in Washington
Courtesy of Americans Against the Republican Party, with over 7,600 likes and 6,900 shares. It’s also been put up by Liberal America, with about 1/3 of the traffic. This meme claims the capital gains tax…
Australia, Big Mac and the Minimum Wage
Updated January 27, 2018 with new data. Courtesy of US Uncut, with over 21,000 likes and 49,000 shares. This meme attempts to show that raising the minimum wage doesn’t translate into an increase in prices…
Fallacy of the Walmart Food Stamp Subsidy Argument
Courtesy of Jobs With Justice, although countless others outlets have repeated this same argument. This data comes from a study by one of the most respected and disciplined group of academics in the nation, the…