Markle, excerpted from your thread, “What is the average household income where one worker earns the minimum wage?”:
Respectfully, SupposnMarkle, the article and link ToddsterPatriot provided,
Typical Minimum-Wage Earners Aren’t Poor, But They’re Not Quite Middle Class
is attributed to Ben Casselman; refer to: Ben Casselman .
Ben Casselman is a senior editor and the chief economics writer for FiveThirtyEight. He wrote about the economy for The Wall Street Journal.
Participants in discussions, thoughtlessly or with innocently ignorant, may limit their remarks to only to only those employees earning the precise, $7.25 per hour minimum rate, rather than to some lowest bracket or percentile of wage rates. (Due to the practices of wage differentials, the minimum rate likely affects 40 percentiles of U.S. employees earning the lowest wage rates, to extents ranging from critical to substantial).
How many, or what percentile of U.S. employees earn precisely $7.25 per hour is of no consequences; numbers or percentiles of employees earning the lowest 10, or 20, or 40 percentile are of substantial affects upon our costs of public assistance, median wage, and aggregate standards of living. …