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The Average Age Of A Minimum Wage Worker In America Is 36, The Real Unemployment Rate Is Sitting At 23 Percent. That Is Not An ‘Employment Recovery’ – That Is A National Crisis

Monday, May 18, 2015 7:25
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Did you know that 89 percent of all minimum wage workers in the United States are not teens? At this point, the average age of a minimum wage worker in this country is 36, and 56 percent of them are women. Millions upon millions of Americans are working as hard as they can (often that means two or three jobs), and yet despite all of their hard work they still find themselves mired in poverty.

One of the big reasons for this is that we have created two classes of workers in the United States. “Full-time workers” are entitled to an array of benefits and protections by law that “part-time workers” do not get. And thanks to perverse incentives contained in Obamacare and other ridiculous laws, we have motivated employers to move as many workers from the “full-time” category to the “part-time” category as possible. It may be hard to believe, but right now only 44 percent of all U.S. adults are employed for 30 or more hours each week. But to get any kind of a job at all is a real challenge in many parts of the country today.’

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Source: http://msnoworldorder.co.uk/newsblog/7711-the-average-age-of-a-minimum-wage-worker-in-america-is-36-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-sitting-at-23-percent-that-is-not-an-employment-recovery-that-is-a-national-crisis

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