[kurto]

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Just a quick question, kurto, in case I missed it elsewhere: is that 25% figure: the heads of households (or singles) who are living below the federal poverty guidelines--or is it the figure for the people working for minimum wage.

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I don't have that detailed a breakdown. Here's the quote I got- (It was on one of the multiple sites I searched under minimum wage trying to find some data... unfortunately I didn't save the link..)

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The number of jobs where wages were below what a worker would need to support a family of four above the poverty line also grew between 1979 and 1999. In 1999, 26.8% of the workforce earned poverty-level wages, an increase from 23.7% in 1979.


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Because if it is just the percentage working at minimum wage, that must include an awful lot of high-school and college students, part-time moms, people living at home with their parents, etc. Big difference.

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Even if 50% of these people were students, part-time moms, etc... we'd still be talking about 10s of millions of people.