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Further, less than 250,000 people out of 161 million in the US laborforce are actually earning the minimum wage. It's less than one sixth of one percent. If yo
by adventured 5y ago
Further, less than 250,000 people out of 161 million in the US laborforce are actually earning the minimum wage. It's less than one sixth of one percent.
If you listened to the propaganda, you'd think it were 20% of the laborforce.
Which warrants a few other questions, including how many of those minimum wage workers are living with their parents rent free, what the average age of those workers is, and so on.
This study instantly becomes that much more absurd if you actually analyze the minimum wage worker segment. It ends up you're talking about 1/20th of 1% of the laborforce that it reasonably applies to.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoCould you please provide a source for those hard numbers?
- pseudalopex 5y ago247,000 people reported making federal minimum wage in 2020 according to BLS data.[1] It's a little less than 1/6% of 161 million. This excludes 865,000 who reported making less. And a probably much larger number making local minimum wages. And any self employed or salaried workers who make minimum wage or less effectively. And anyone making the slightest amount more. [1] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat44.htm https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat44.htm
- shkkmo 5y agoEven those numbers are highly misleading since half the states in the US (containing a strong majority of the population) have minimum wages that are higher than the federal minimum wage.
- gruez 5y agoBut if they're making below minimum wage, why should we expect a change in minimum wage policy to help these people? Clearly their employers aren't interested in following minimum wage laws.
- pseudalopex 5y agoThe page suggested some people rounded to the nearest dollar. Maybe some adjusted for unpaid overtime.
- shkkmo 5y agoI won't bother to ask for a citation because these numbers are completely wrong.