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To: Les H who wrote (106333)6/4/2001 11:40:42 AM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
>>>You also have a good third who are likely not relying on the wages for supporting families, of which many are living at home with parents while attending school.<<<

Check the numbers:

Of the 11.8 million workers (10.1% of the workforce) that would receive an increase in their hourly wage rate if the minimum wage were raised to $6.15 per hour seventy-two percent of these workers are adults (age 20 and older) and 59.2% are female. This is a very different population than what you beleive it to be.

Just tack on "head of household" to a good portion of that 59.2% female and you'll have a clearer picture of what this looks like. I don't doubt that many of these workers are are living "at home" with two or three other families because they can't afford to live anywhere else.

Data from the last minimum wage increase reveal that 58% of the benefits went to low-income working families in the bottom 40% of income distribution.
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