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People keep saying that min wage jobs are short term etc.

Almost 50% of americans make less then $15 an hour.

It's actually 42.something, but it doesn't take into account those who are on unemployement, disability, ssi, retired etc, and have to live on that much or less as well. It only counts actual workers. So it's actually over 50% that live on that amount of income.

Here is one site that breaks it down.

http://fortune.com/2015/04/13/who-makes-15-per-hour/

People don't do those jobs because they are lazy, they do those jobs because THAT IS HALF OF THE JOBS OUT THERE. If you have 100 lawyers, and only 10 jobs for a lawyer, and the only other jobs are min wage, guess what the other 90 have to do if they want to work?

If half of the jobs in the US pay under 15$ an hour, that means half of the people that work are going to get paid that much. It's pretty simple. You can argue all you want about looking for a better job, having a better resume etc, and all that is true, you could get that better position if you tried harder, but....it means some OTHER guy or girl, isn't going to get the position you took, and will then be working another job (maybe that job won't be min wage, but the person who was going to work that job...won't get it,....and maybe they will be working a min wage job etc.

It's actually worse now that Min wage is raising so fast so many places. Before, you had a range, min wage was around $9 an hour, and there was a good 6-8$ range over that for many skilled jobs, for people who worked a min wage job for years etc.

Now those people with 10 years of seniority working a job that started at $7 an hour 10 years ago, and has increased over time to a whole $12 (not horrid increase really), are going to be making minimum wage with everyone else once the base is $15 an hour.

In my area (for now) the min wage is only $11, so they at least have an extra $1 an hour, but....Home Health Aids and a bunch of other positions that require training (money spent for a program, 3-6 month program etc), they went from making 30% more then min wage in this area, to making minimum wage. They finally just increased the base to $13 because they were getting NO new workers in the last 2 years (It's $600 or so bucks for the training, not to mention the time, and for over a year, you would do that for a min wage job lol).

Anyway, whenever you go out and get food at a fast food place, go fill up your gas, go to a grocery store, shop at a mall etc etc...those people.....the ones doing pretty much most of the work around where you live? They all make around minimum wage and certainly less then $15 an hour. Even the managers. Even larger companies pay that for most of their employees, even their managers in most cases (take Conduent for instanc,e largest customer service company....pays $12 an hour base for employees (goes up slowly until you worked there 2 years then maxes at $14 an hour for base customers). The managers (first tier) get an extra $1 to the cap ($15 base), and the area managers etc that I talked to made around 30k (salary, but that breaks down to about $700 a week, which at 40 hours is $17 an hour).
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