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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: tejek who wrote (63646)1/28/2008 6:28:26 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
Only 1 Out of 86 Workers Receives Minimum Wage

Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek says that his students typically think that about 20% of the American labor force is employed at the minimum wage, when the actual percentage of minimum wage workers (1.7 million) was only 2.2% of all hourly-paid workers (76.5 million) in 2006, according to the BLS.

However, hourly-paid workers (76.5 million) in the 2006 BLS study are only about half of the total labor force of about 146 million, and therefore minimum wage workers represent fewer than 1.2% of all workers (not just hourly workers). In other words, only about 1 out of every 86 American workers receives the minimum wage.

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And of course most of those 1 out of 86 don't support themselves, let alone a family on it. Many minimum wage jobs are part time jobs, held by young people, or 2nd jobs with another income bearing the main burden of supporting a family.
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