“One percent of the us labor force earns the minimum wage.” All these evil capitalist businesses out there required only to pay their peasant workers minimum wage and yet only one percent of them actually do it. Doesn’t that crush the boogeyman of the evil capitalist right off the bat?
Remember, the issue the White House says is so pressing is people working full time, trying to support a household. Well, of that one percent, teenagers make up the largest age group.
In fact, “most minimum wage workers are under 25.” 55% of minimum wage workers are under the age of 25. Ok, so we’ve established it’s mostly kids making minimum wage. I say kids because they’re all on mommy and daddy’s health insurance. But surely they’re at least full time like the president said, right?
“Less than one-third work full-time.” Only 32% of minimum wage workers work full time. This is how progressives fight battles by the way. They look at an issue this big, like a pile of 100 fries, and only tell you about this part of it: one-third of one fry, but according to the president, these full time minimum wage earners are living in poverty-and that’s why he wants to raise the wage.
Yeah, about that. You see, a full time minimum wage worker in 2014 makes $3,410 dollars more than the federal poverty limit. So, depending on his family size, a full time minimum wage worker could take as much as 11 weeks of unpaid vacation and still clear the poverty line. He might not make the kind of cash Obama and his friends make, but someone should tell the president to look at their own numbers before running his mouth.
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