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Guynemer
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Decaf, Sava. Decaf.
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"Most often, the person employed at the lowest wages are entry-level workers, part time workers or teen agers."
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Realities: The majority of minimum wage workers are adults, many of whom contribute substantially to family income.
* According to a study from the Economic Policy Institute, nearly seven of every 10 workers (68 percent) who would benefit from a $1.50 increase in the minimum wage are adults.
* Adult women made up the single largest group of beneficiaries from the last minimum wage increase, representing 43 percent of the beneficiaries.
* EPI found that nearly eight of 10 workers who would benefit from a $1.50 increase in the minimum wage work full-time (42 percent) or between 20 and 34 hours per week (34 percent).
* EPI also found that minimum wage workers contributed an average of 76 percent of a family’s weekly earnings in families with less than $25,000 in income.
* A minimum wage increase also benefits many single-parent families. Twenty-five percent of the workers affected by the three-step increase in Oregon’s minimum wage to $6.50 by 1999 were heads of single-parent families.
* Forty percent of minimum wage workers are the sole breadwinners in their families. |
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Realities: Not all minimum wage workers move on to higher-wage jobs—many of them earn the minimum wage or near the minimum wage for quite some time.
* According to a study by economists William J. Carrington and Bruce C. Fallick, 19.2 percent of workers who were finished with school spent at least half of the first eight years into their careers in jobs that paid $1.50 above the minimum wage. Some 13.2 percent spent at least half of the first 10 years into their careers in jobs that paid $1.50 above the minimum wage.
* A Joint Economic Committee study found that of the 4.2 million young adults (ages 21–29 with high school educations or less) working in minimum wage contour* jobs in 1986, more than half (2.4 million) still were employed in those jobs three years later.
* A minimum wage job should offer more than just an opportunity to work—it should guarantee an opportunity to make a living from work. Anyone who puts in a fair day’s work should receive a fair day’s pay, regardless of whether he or she works for a week, a month, a year or 10 years in the job.
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edit: from the AFL-CIO website.
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16-10-2004 02:16
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