‘If you’re making less than $25 an hour right now, you should be terrified’: Business creator shows how wages under $25 an hour don’t meet average expenses

In the United States, 1.1 million workers earn wages at or below the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and “nearly 52 million U.S. workers—or 32% of the country’s workforce—earn less than $15 an hour,” per Bloomberg.

Alongside this prevalence of low-wage work comes rising inflation, which remained “near a 40-year high in August.”

Now, a user on TikTok has gone viral after claiming that, factoring in taxes and the nationwide average costs...