• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Last time I looked, over 10 million workers make federal minimum wage, tens of millions make less than fifteen an hour.

    Our entire workforce is 160 million people or so, so it’s a huge problem for our consumer economy.

    • spacesatan@leminal.space
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      3 months ago

      Your numbers are way off. It’s <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.