Consider:
When #WomenSucceed, America succeeds. It's time to help millions of women by raising the minimum wage. #RaiseTheWage pic.twitter.com/3K4F6RcPy2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 10, 2014
Now the real story:
Perhaps surprisingly, not very many people earn minimum wage, and they make up a smaller share of the workforce than they used to. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, last year 1.532 million hourly workers earned the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour; nearly 1.8 million more earned less than that because they fell under one of several exemptions (tipped employees, full-time students, certain disabled workers and others), for a total of 3.3 million hourly workers at or below the federal minimum.
That group represents 4.3% of the nation’s 75.9 million hourly-paid workers and 2.6% of all wage and salary workers. In 1979, when the BLS began regularly studying minimum-wage workers, they represented 13.4% of hourly workers and 7.9% of all wage and salary workers. (Bear in mind that the 3.3 million figure doesn’t include salaried workers, although BLS says relatively few salaried workers are paid at what would translate into below-minimum hourly rates. Also, 23 states, as well as the District of Columbia, have higher minimum wages than the federal standard; people who earned the state minimum wage in those jurisdictions aren’t included in the 3.3 million total.)
People at or below the federal minimum are:
* Disproportionately young: 50.4% are ages 16 to 24; 24% are teenagers (ages 16 to 19).
* Mostly (77%) white; nearly half are white women.
* Largely part-time workers (64% of the total).
– Details, details….. In Proggie-land its the emotion that counts.
When #ProgressivesSucceed, America gets the shaft.
In Proggtopia, more women on welfare is a feature.
are they married? are they part of a two income family? children?
I have an idea. How about we get everyone in America a job first, THEN pick an appropriate minimum wage. The average wage of the bottom 10th percentile say.
Talk of raising the minimum wage when half the workforce is idled is crazy talk to anyone with common sense. Unfortunately, common sense went out the window with traditional marriage and national pride.
Remember when the last Presidential REPUBLICAN candidate, our very own Mitt Romney, said on the campaign trail in 2012 that he thought the minimum wage should be indexed to inflation so that it automatically rises with inflation?
They all stink.
When Unions succeed, Democrats succeed. It’s time to help unions skim more money off the paychecks of millions of union workers by raising the minumum wage.
Do it for the women and children, DAMN YOU!
By setting automatic price increases the second there’s inflation, we can defeat inflation forever!!!
Ah, this country. At this point Common Sense doesn’t even return our afternoon phone calls, never mind our 3 AM drunken texts.
Gee, here is a little headline that HuffNPoop seems to have overlooked somehow. “ISIS reaches Baghdad suburbs, US troops block the way to BGW Int’l Airport”. So we now officially have “boots on the ground” and all the Progtards in denial can stop playing word games.
– How many bites does it take to get to the center of a Benghazi?
– I think the father of Ty Woods should file a wrongful death suit against Bumblefuck and his entire staff, including the Hildebeast. I’ll bet that “post unlawful and willful acts of endangerment” are not immune using the usual gov. indemnification. Would make an interesting case. You can’t murder, or cause the murder of someone even if you’re the government, intentionally or otherwise.
– Maybe his lawyers are waiting for more of the truth to surface before acting.
Speaking of statistics, for the curioser and curioser file:
I’ve gotten called two days in a row by the same robo-pollster, and both times, I get hung up on when I answer “conservative” to the “do you consider yourself, conservative, liberal or moderate?” question.
So, either somebody is having a hard time getting enough liberals and/or moderates to round out his sample, or, and in my opinion more likely*, somebody is trying to move the electorate with a bogus poll.
*but then, I’m a paranoid conspiracy freak who always expects the worst.
Just like Roger L. Simon.
Most polls will oversample proglodytes.
If they can…
America has oversampled Protardism for well over a century now.
Well, yes.
It’s now part of the gene pool, as it were [whoever Gene is].