Many make minimum wage
For the critics that think hardly anyone makes the minimum wage, there are almost two million people who would argue that point with you. States are taking the lead to do what Congress won't do for workers. Governor Doyle led the fight here, but Rep. Mark Green is part of the crowd that won't raise the federal wage. From the American Progress Action Report:
More than 1.9 million U.S. workers earned the federal minimum wage just $5.15) or less last year. States are taking action by "using legislation and ballot initiatives to do what Congress has not done since 1997, when it last increased the federal minimum wage.”And it's not just teenagers flipping burgers.
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The thing about those numbers is that even they a skewed because so many large population states have a minimum wage of more than the US that you don't see all the people that are actually working at minimum wage within their state.
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