Minimum Wage: 13 Funny Tweets About Idaho's Minimum Wage

According to Idahoans making minimum wage, it isn't easy living according to the Twitter-verse.

In Idaho, the minimum wage is only $7.25 per hour, which is the same as the lowest amount legally allowed for compensation by the federal government for most types of workers, especially tip-earners.

Many Idahoans have taken to Twitter to tweet their sometimes funny takes on minimum wage life in Idaho.

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Here is what Twitter users in Idaho are tweeting about Idaho's minimum wage:

As Idaho votes to freeze minimum wage to $7.25/h an initiative has been formed to change the state motto to "Potatoes & Bullsh*t"@absrdNEWS

— Brice (@brissle) February 20, 2016

Some Idaho pols trust local govts to manage fed lands but not to handle minimum wage & plastic bags: https://t.co/kqhAiEl5WY @BetterIdaho

— D.F. Oliveria (@HucksOnline) February 9, 2016

@reflectivity Bundy out, Abedini in. Idaho Karma works after hours, but for very low wage... @BetterIdaho

— Bob Baker (@IdahoRoadapple) January 27, 2016

$400 on textbooks and still have more to get. And I'm working on Idaho minimum wage. #smilingthroughthepain 😅

— Cece (@cecestaggs) January 11, 2016

Boise the only place I know where a dishwasher, a secretary, and a construction worker all make the same wage...glass ceiling is real low

— chez (@rychez1) October 26, 2015

@kimjasminf yeah In Boise it's not terrible. Minimum wage here is very low. Same with cost of living. Also uber is still relatively small

— jake villanueva (@givinguponhope) August 26, 2015

VOTE NOW: Is Idaho Gov. Butch Otter Doing a Good Job?

Realized that my hourly pay this summer was above the poverty level & almost twice Idaho's minimum wage… wow.

— Shelby Adams (@shlebs007) November 5, 2014

@TheDailyEdge Idaho to change state motto to "Live Free on minimum wage Job"
(oh, and food stamps)

— Judith Hutton (@huttonjudith) July 4, 2014

In lieu of birthday wishes, It'd rule if #Idaho residents contacted their legislators to discuss @AddTheWords, #AgGagBill, #minimumwage etc.

— Thomas Paul (@ThomasPaul117) February 26, 2014

Idaho is discussing minimum wage increase--it won't take an author to write the conclusion #IdahoPolitics #MinimumWage

— Paul Keene (@keeneonlife) February 9, 2014

People who say swag, boredom, minimum wage, hang nails, long boarders, and Boise State football #ThingsILoathe

— Neil Sherman (@Grangerbruh) February 6, 2013

Idaho logged onto the Oregon legislative website & tuned into the min wage hearing. Bad move. #RaiseTheWage pic.twitter.com/EOXTPF3tdN

— Marcus Swift (@Marcus_Swift) January 15, 2016

CONTEST: the next person who says 'this isn't news' gets an min. wage journalism job in Boise, Idaho with full editorial privileges.

— Steve Saleeba (@SteveSaleeba) September 20, 2011

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