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> The majority of minimum wage work is done as supplemental income to a household (teenagers or spouses or partner). Is this actually true?
by exdsq 4y ago
> The majority of minimum wage work is done as supplemental income to a household (teenagers or spouses or partner).
Is this actually true?
- legitster 4y agoIt kinda depends on how you slice it. There are 60 million Americans in "low wage" families, of which more than half of the income comes from minimum wage jobs: https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/working-poor-families-in-america/ https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/w... But for the most part, minimum wage workers are young white women: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-minimum-wage/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-m...