The Real Reason People Want To Raise The Minimum Wage
According to Bureau of Labor stats, the number of people working in the US (16 or older) is 151,000,000. And the number who earn or are paid minimum wage?
520,000 .
Yup. .003 of the work force earns minimum wage.
Any guess as to how many of them might be teenagers?About half the workers nationally making the $5.15 minimum wage are teens. But half the workers are older and are supporting themselves and possibly a family on the minimum wage. They shouldn’t have to survive on an outdated wage standard.
According to that you have 260,000 workers earning minimum wage.
So why all the clamor to raise it? Why paragraphs in editorials like this across the nation?
Be sure to read the whole post, but I’ll give you the short answer: It’s because a lot of union contracts are based on the minimum wage. When the minimum wage goes up, so does pay for union workers.
This isn’t really about making things better for America’s “working poor.” This is about the government mandating a wage hike for the unions.



