Replies to post #2236 on RANT & CHAT - No Politics (RANT-NP)

[ergo sum]

"Please note that at no time was it necessary for a government to involve itself in the above equation."

Well except for the civil war.



http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat44.pdf

2001

total 16 years and over
who are paid by the hour 72,486 1,602 636 2,238 3.1%

total who earn below
the minimum wage 1,602 most of that is probably legal

total who earn
minimum wage 636

total at or below
minimum wage 2,238 3.1%

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1990/07/art3abs.htm
A study of household data demonstrates that increases in the minimum wage reduce poverty among families more then previously estimated. This article examines the effects that raising the minimum was has on family poverty.