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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (46618)	5/11/2001 5:57:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Do you have statistics for that assertion? I've seen some but I don't have any currently available. Well here is a link from an article published in 1999. It quotes BLS statistics but doesn't give a link to them. ncpa.org "Fewer than 20 percent of the 4.4 million minimum wage earners live in poor families -- most of them being young and unskilled. More than 40 percent of them live at home with their parents. One-third are teens and more than half are under the age of 25. Half of all minimum wage earners live in families with incomes above $25,000 -- and nearly one-fifth live in families with incomes over $50,000. " Do you have statistics for that assertion? Drive through any affluent suburb on a weekday. You'll see plenty of landscape crews and plenty of maid service vans, all populated by adults (the kids are in school) working full-time minimum wage jobs. Lots of minimum wage adults work all night cleaning offices, too. In affluent suburbs people with jobs likes these tend to work for above minimum wage. People in less affluent areas working jobs like this may be doing so for minimum wage. In affluent suburbs even McDonalds often can't pay only minimum wage. Tim