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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP just will NOT acknowledge that about half of all hourly workers make less than 15 bucks an hour.  That’s not a small number of employees. It’s a huge chunk of the economy. And it’s underpowered.  Big businesses have lost sight of the first from the trees. Time to make them understand.  We can pay living wages, and have a booming economy.  We’ve literally done it before....back in the day when you all thought America was so great.[/quote]

Over 40% of Americans are salaried.  What is your source for half of hourly workers making less than $15?  Looks to me like most making that are under 25--and mostly in the 16-19 range  Looks like most of them are making around $15.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/24/how-much-money-americans-earn-at-every-age.html[/quote]

Google it.  It’s 42.5% of 60 per event of the workforce.  [/quote]

Here are some extra goodies for you to ponder:

Forty-two (42) percent of U.S. workers make less than $15 per hour.
• Women and people of color are overrepresented in jobs paying less than a $15 wage. Female workers account for 54.7 percent of those making less than $15 per hour while making up less than half of the overall U.S. workforce (48.3 percent). African Americans make up about 12 percent of the total workforce,
and they account for 15 percent of the sub-$15-wage workforce. Similarly, Latinos constitute 16.5 percent of the workforce, but account for almost 23 percent of workers making less than $15 per hour.
• More than half of African-American workers and close to 60 percent of Latino workers make less than $15.
• About half (46.4 percent) of workers making less than $15 per hour are ages 35 and older.
• Two states—Arkansas and Mississippi—have median wages of less than $15 per hour. Four other states—Tennessee, Montana, Kentucky, and South Dakota—have $15 median wages.

It’s all right here https://www.nelp.org/wp-content/uploads/Growing-Movement-for-15-Dollars.pdf[/quote]

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