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Well yeah, that's because most people who are making minimum wage are... teenagers working part-time. At its current level the US minimum wage has very little i
by magila 14y ago
Well yeah, that's because most people who are making minimum wage are... teenagers working part-time. At its current level the US minimum wage has very little impact on anything, positive or negative. Very few jobs are worth so little, and most of them are being worked by immigrants who get paid under-the-table anyways.
- sukuriant 14y agoKnowing a few people that make or have made approximately minimum wage for the time I've known them, and seeing the age of people working at various low-end jobs, I would like to see some statistics to compare to your statement to my anecdotal evidence.
- specialist 14y agoI'd also like to see underemployment / multiple job stats too. All this talk about minimum wage, haven't seen mention of living wage.
- slurgfest 14y agoThe number of jobs worked by immigrants paid under the table is not 'very few'.
- lostlogin 14y agoNot sure it applies everywhere, but non-immigrants receiving under the table pay would dwarf the number of immigrants doing the same in New Zealand.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoThat's so wildly untrue.
- jfoutz 14y agoAbout half (of 3.8M) are under 25. Not sure about "very few", it's one in twenty jobs. http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm
- ef4 14y agoOne in twenty hourly-paid jobs. But hourly-paid jobs represent only 59.1% of all jobs. So it's actually only 3.1% of jobs that pay (Federal) minimum wage.
- jfoutz 14y agoI'd like to see your math. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 says 64 million at the end of 2011, 3.8M/64M = 5.9% No? I might have mis googled those statistics though.
- jspaur 14y agoMILLIONS (3+ in California alone [1]) of retail workers make nothing more than minimum wage (with hours cut strategically short by 1-2 of the company benefit plan requirements). Walk into any Gap, Walmart, Gamestop, mall, etc. and most of them _are not_ teenagers. If anything they're 1/5th college grads who just put 45k into the economy through 'education') Sure the skillset might be considered less valuable, but is their actual life (and quality of it?). [1] http://www.retailmeansjobs.com/data/CA/0 http://www.retailmeansjobs.com/data/CA/0 - even if the numbers are off by 300% it's still millions
- FireBeyond 14y ago"At its current level the US minimum wage has very little impact on anything, positive or negative. Very few jobs are worth so little" Hah. Most of the EMTs not related to a fire department, that take you to hospital when you call 911 are on, well... minimum wage. How's that for unsettling?
- lilsunnybee 14y agoVery few jobs? What country do you live in? That isn't the case in the US.