The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025

And that's with a poverty line that's already way too low. The poverty line is based on the price of food, because when it was instituted that's what poor people spent something like 2/3 of their income on. Now the poor spend about 10-25% of their income on food and at least 2/3 on housing, but the official poverty line is still based on food prices.