Many of the people making minimum wage are high school kids who live at home. The idea that businesses should be forced to pay a "living wage" even to people who don't need it and aren't worth the investment is simply madness.
Competent adults aren't slaving away at jobs for years on end and still making only minimum wage. If you are an adult and have been working in an industry for years and are still only making minimum wage, you have problems that a minimum wage hike can't fix.
According to the BLS, only 2 percent of hourly workers make the federal minimum or less. For workers over 25, it's 1 percent.
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We talk about this issue as if there are millions of families out there trying to survive on the minimum wage, but the numbers tell us that is just not the case.
bls.gov/opub/reports/m…
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