Starvation wage?

AIN'T NOBODY STARVIN' IN THIS COUNTRY THAT I HAVE SEEN
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i'd love to know what problem you have with the phrase "starvation wages" when people trying to raise a family on 7 dollars an hour are literally starving
Asked by Anonymous

Because that is a completely fabricated scenario:
From the Department of Labor and Statistics:

In 2012, 75.3 million workers in the United States age 16 and over were paid at hourly rates, representing 59.0 percent of all wage and salary workers. 1 Among those paid by the hour, 1.6 million earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Together, these 3.6 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 4.7 percent of all hourly paid workers.
• Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they made up about half of those paid the Federal minimum wage or less. Among employed teenagers paid by the hour, about 21 percent earned the minimum wage or less, compared with about 3 percent of workers age 25 and over.
• Never-married workers, who tend to be young, were more likely than married workers to earn the federal minimum wage or less (about 8 percent versus about 2 percent).
• About 11 percent of part-time workers (persons who usually work less than 35 hours per week) were paid the federal minimum wage or less, compared with about 2 percent of full-time workers.

From Pew Research Center:

That group represents 4.7% of the nation’s 75.3 million hourly-paid workers and 2.8% of all workers. In 1979, when the BLS began regularly studying minimum-wage workers, they represented 13.4% of hourly workers and 7.9% of all wage and salary workers. (Bear in mind that the 3.55 million figure doesn’t include salaried workers. But BLS says relatively few salaried workers are paid at what would translate into below-minimum hourly rates. Also, 19 states besides the District have minimum wages higher than the federal standard; people who’d be minimum-wage workers in those states aren’t included in the 3.55 million total.)
People at or below the federal minimum are:
• Disproportionately young: 50.6% are ages 16 to 24; 24% are teenagers (ages 16 to 19).
• Mostly (78%) white; fully half are white women.
• Largely part-time workers (64% of the total).

Conclusion, most minimum wage earners are more likely to be teenagers to young dependent individuals working part-time, who most likely live at home or with others who provide supplemental income. They are not the full-time single mother of three kids working two jobs and starving to death. That is a lie that progressives have been selling each other for far too long. There is no such thing as a “living wage” nor a “starvation wage.” It’s bunk, bullshit, baloney, hogwash, nonsense, rubbish…
Raising the minimum wage will not reduce poverty.
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