The Reality of Who Actually Works for Minimum Wage Will Shock You

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are about 3.6 million people who are at or below the minimum wage there working at or below the minimum wage and up where the create a couple grass on it though pretty interesting political okay so who works at the minimum wage teenage boys 10 percent I think that make sense your first job cut grass you know do in other newspapers miss a newspaper boys that's what I did adult women this one's crazy at minimum wage almost half those people are women adult women teenage girls 14 percent adult man 20 7.5 percent now here's the fascinating part so 34 percent of these people who are at minimum wage have some college or an associate's degree that seemed incredibly high 7 percent have a bachelor's degree or higher I 28 percent less than high school so that I think make some sense and a 31 percent are high school graduates so this there's some interesting numbers you some I think kinda surprising and some not too surprising but the the education one is the scary one me I mean the people that are going to college and still working minimum wage the the scary number and yeah I mean stay in school you going to working in which job is not the best encouragement the right that that they're not helping now the scariest number which was it was on those grasses that I believe it's 56 percent %uh minimum wage earners are full-time workers and more than half a minimum wage earners I provide most the income for their households yeah we have to decide if ur gonna live in a society where a person can work full-time and still live below the poverty line but these graphs to show a very valuable because the wanna do most insidious arguments against raising the minimum wage which a decent society would do eyes least we could do after destroying unions which built the middle class is that %uh they're all kids do in summer jobs are starter jobs in S and 90 S it's simply not the case so I assume both you guys are on board the Seattle idea the fifteen dollar minimum wage are going to cupcakes and rather at that church address the one to pay people in cupcakes going back to an earlier well yeah but I mean that's a separate issue the week we're taping this of course is the week the LA that California's raise the minimum wage from eight dollars to nine San Francisco its 1074 an hour and if you adjust for productivity I and inflation the minimum wage today should be twenty one dollars an hour in Australia raised there's to sixteen dollars an hour unemployment went down red it's gone up since then because I've mining closer's by I all the same doomsday predictions were made and they were all prevent falls every time they'd ever tried to raise the minimum wage going back to henry ford instituting the five dollar-a-day wage for his workers on on the line at the fourth factory in a also this will crush the economy kill jobs it's never true because if you're employees have more money they're spending more money in your community and it drives the economy the middle class are the job creators and if we're all gonna be low wage slaves eventually there will not be high enough walls for the 1 percent in their gated community yes you know we did a story in December about literally at Walmart because they pay their employees so poorly they were taking donations at Walmart for their own employees pretty much deals well that's the thing with wal-mart is its price is so nice you pay from twice: are you know go there I get subsidized there are some stores were up to eighty percent Walmart workers are on snapper some kinda public assistance so you're paying for those low prices when you're there buying your non-american a crap and you're paying for it again every April when you're paying your taxes and subsidizing and that the sixteen years at the Walmart fortune control as much well that's the bottom forty million americans that's disgusting and it's not conservative in its not sustainable and it's not same yes so when we hear all those numbers what what are we supposed to do because it's not change this is all getting worse well what do you think we can do actually to to change the trend USA for actual solution like some kind of resolution yeah I mean number on logic into the argument failures is up rare yeah home no I mean I think we're in the middle age makes absolute sense I mean you have action figures to back that up with which is you know always a funny movie about it sa mga but I it's unfair you can prepare yeah I mean is there really a question about this than I think Braun agreement here yeah why do you think women make so much less than men still you even in the white just said exactly but even the white house this week they show that the average man at work in the white house right now I think makes eighty seven thousand dollars per year and the average woman is making about 77,000 I get it there's people have different jobs in there might be some reason but what he did now is it still women are making less it's almost like there's like a disparity between one man may calm were made on a broader scale so it matches the White House I would say it's not just the white house near I want is a national problem may be unfair to the white house you know women make less because that's what everyone's agreed to yeah and when everyone stops agreeing with it it'll change but you know you want a real solution get money into politics I'm with Saturday Russian this is the only way to start it find a way to get money out of politics look I'm not a liberal an eisenhower republican okay and why was the middle class a strong in the nineteen fifties everything Republicans hate now strong union involvement yourself a favor look as in nineteen fifty-six eisenhower reelection posters it's all about Republican support unions when people have more buying power you have a stronger middle class and the rich do better to infrastructure spending like the interstate highway plan are add socialism like the GI Bill and a more progressive taxation rate the rich have never paid lower taxes and seventy years then today this is all example man-made policies goddess into this income inequality mess and the policies gets outta out so it's not cheeses that's gonna get us crash look if we had a government based on Christian values I would be kind to the poor kinda sick kinda prisoners and that Star Wars ya tengo well pretty much everything ever deal on this showing everything using the news constantly all is about money in politics to actually go check out what their back Dhaka up