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your quote: According to 2004 statistics roughly 85% of paid americans already make over the minimum wage.
from your source:
Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2004
According to Current Population Survey estimates for 2004, some 73.9 million American workers were paid at hourly rates, representing 59.8 percent of all wage and salary workers.1 Of those paid by the hour, 520,000 were reported as earning exactly $5.15, the prevailing Federal minimum wage, and another 1.5 million were reported earning wages below the minimum.2 Together, these 2.0 million workers with wages at or below the minimum made up 2.7 percent of all hourly-paid workers. Tables 1 - 10 present data on a wide array of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for hourly-paid workers earning at or below the Federal minimum wage. The following are some highlights from the 2004 data.reported wages at or below the prevailing Federal minimum, compared with about 2 percent of men. (See table 1.)
do you really think that a survey estimate is realyl any more solid n what it coneys than second hand smoke studies that rely on projection and estimates? Further, how would you say that "total reported" compares to the "population" of the united states workforce. I don't see that this source differentiates among standard variations from the minimum (and less) so that we can see of their data indicates five cents above minimum wage being included in your 85%. Not to mention that, given the pattern of outsourcing within the last 8 years, I don't put much weight on weather you think a solid USPS job is worthwhile. The question was if the Government spurned the economy and I don't think this source validates your disregard for the economic impmact and utility of positions like this. Certainly, when compared to the same job in the private sector your argument falls flat on its face.
and no, one simply doesn't have all the power of castle greyskull when deciding their employer. It;s retarded to insist as much. If such were the case there would be no unemployment lines. No education dynamics and resume selling points. No layoffs. No bankruptcies. No affirmative action. No discrimination laws. It's simply not true that every unemployed american is merely lazy. I'll remind you that the same argument was used when validating child labor.
from your source:
Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2004
According to Current Population Survey estimates for 2004, some 73.9 million American workers were paid at hourly rates, representing 59.8 percent of all wage and salary workers.1 Of those paid by the hour, 520,000 were reported as earning exactly $5.15, the prevailing Federal minimum wage, and another 1.5 million were reported earning wages below the minimum.2 Together, these 2.0 million workers with wages at or below the minimum made up 2.7 percent of all hourly-paid workers. Tables 1 - 10 present data on a wide array of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for hourly-paid workers earning at or below the Federal minimum wage. The following are some highlights from the 2004 data.reported wages at or below the prevailing Federal minimum, compared with about 2 percent of men. (See table 1.)
do you really think that a survey estimate is realyl any more solid n what it coneys than second hand smoke studies that rely on projection and estimates? Further, how would you say that "total reported" compares to the "population" of the united states workforce. I don't see that this source differentiates among standard variations from the minimum (and less) so that we can see of their data indicates five cents above minimum wage being included in your 85%. Not to mention that, given the pattern of outsourcing within the last 8 years, I don't put much weight on weather you think a solid USPS job is worthwhile. The question was if the Government spurned the economy and I don't think this source validates your disregard for the economic impmact and utility of positions like this. Certainly, when compared to the same job in the private sector your argument falls flat on its face.
and no, one simply doesn't have all the power of castle greyskull when deciding their employer. It;s retarded to insist as much. If such were the case there would be no unemployment lines. No education dynamics and resume selling points. No layoffs. No bankruptcies. No affirmative action. No discrimination laws. It's simply not true that every unemployed american is merely lazy. I'll remind you that the same argument was used when validating child labor.