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> Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor. Almost nobody makes federal minimum wage. It's gotta be at 2%+
by dmoy 3y ago
> Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor.
Almost nobody makes federal minimum wage.
It's gotta be at 2%+ making state minimum wage though.
CA for example has a minimum wage somewhere north of $15, and like 10% of the population makes minimum wage or less. That right there pulls the number for the whole country up to at least 1% making minimum wage, because CA is >10% of the population. (Extreme example, since CA also has the highest real poverty rate in the US (SPM, not the hilariously undercounting OPM)).