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Old 05-11-2006, 03:22 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hevusa
Who are minimum wage workers?
An estimated 7.3 million workers (5.8% of the workforce) would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage to $7.25 by June 2007. Of these workers, 72.1% are adults and 60.6% are women. [b]Close to half (43.9%) work full time and another third (34.5%) work between 20 and 34 hours per week. More than one-third (35%) of the workers who would benefit from an increase to $7.25 are parents of children under age 18, including 760,000 single mothers. The average minimum wage worker brings home about half of his or her family's weekly earnings.
How many of them are 18 & 19-year old "adults" - or are retired adults who are greeters at WalMart for both the exercise, the socialization and the spending money?

Here's another catch: How many of these minimum-wage workers should NOT be paid more, specifically because they are NOT worth what they are already being paid? The answer? MANY!

Here's yet another catch: We hear lots of people - conservatives and liberal alike - cricitizing the Hispanics who are coming to America and "stealing all our jobs!" But the TRUTH of the matter is that they're simply going to where the jobs are.