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5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Minimum Wage

Buckeye

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Minimum Wage

  • 1. For every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, teenage employment at small businesses is estimated to decrease by 4.6 to 9.0 percent.

    According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, teen unemployment is at 24 percent, its highest rate in 17 years.

    2. For every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, estimates show employment may fall as much as 8.5 percent for young black and Hispanic males age 16-19.3

    African American teen unemployment is currently at 38 percent, which is four times the national unemployment rate and 27 percent higher than last year.

    3. According to U.S. Census data, only 16.5 percent of minimum wage recipients are raising a family on the minimum wage. 83.5 percent are teenagers living with working parents, adults living alone, or dual-earner married couples.

    Raising the minimum wage is an ineffective tool to fight poverty.

    4. Economists found that 35 percent of minimum wage benefits go to the richest 40 percent of families.

    The average annual family income of those earning the minimum wage in 2009 is over $48,000.

    5. According to a 2003 study by economists at the Federal Reserve, a 2-3 percent decrease in employment can be expected from a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage.

    The federal minimum wage goes up July 24, 2009.

On Friday, July 24, the federal minimum wage is set to jump for the third time in three years to $7.25 per hour. Yet, decades of research have shown that minimum wage hikes take a sledgehammer to the entry-level job market. As employers are faced with higher labor costs, they hire workers who have the most experience or high skill levels. That leaves unskilled applicants, particularly teens, without that critical first job experience. Since Congress began implementing the 2007 wage hike, over 480,000 teen jobs have disappeared across the country.
 
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Buckeye said:
Countdown to Job Loss…

5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Minimum Wage

  • 1. For every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, teenage employment at small businesses is estimated to decrease by 4.6 to 9.0 percent.

    According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, teen unemployment is at 24 percent, its highest rate in 17 years.

    2. For every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, estimates show employment may fall as much as 8.5 percent for young black and Hispanic males age 16-19.3

    African American teen unemployment is currently at 38 percent, which is four times the national unemployment rate and 27 percent higher than last year.

    3. According to U.S. Census data, only 16.5 percent of minimum wage recipients are raising a family on the minimum wage. 83.5 percent are teenagers living with working parents, adults living alone, or dual-earner married couples.

    Raising the minimum wage is an ineffective tool to fight poverty.

    4. Economists found that 35 percent of minimum wage benefits go to the richest 40 percent of families.

    The average annual family income of those earning the minimum wage in 2009 is over $48,000.

    5. According to a 2003 study by economists at the Federal Reserve, a 2-3 percent decrease in employment can be expected from a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage.

    The federal minimum wage goes up July 24, 2009.

On Friday, July 24, the federal minimum wage is set to jump for the third time in three years to $7.25 per hour. Yet, decades of research have shown that minimum wage hikes take a sledgehammer to the entry-level job market. As employers are faced with higher labor costs, they hire workers who have the most experience or high skill levels. That leaves unskilled applicants, particularly teens, without that critical first job experience. Since Congress began implementing the 2007 wage hike, over 480,000 teen jobs have disappeared across the country.
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Buckeye the raise in minimum wage inflaates the govement coffers. Everthing from Social Security trust funds, Unemployment coffes and taxes withheld. The minimum wage increases in essence are tax increases.

Yet these that raise the wage level cannot see with the reduced numbers of employees their is no real increase. The MAJORITY of politicans in this country are brain dead! :cry:
 
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