44% of Fully Employed Make less then $18.000 a Year

[Earl]

Marc Steiner, interim co-Editor at TRNN, is a Peabody Award-winning journalist who has spent his life working on issues of social justice. He walked his first picket line at age 13 and at age 16 became the youngest person in Maryland arrested for Civil Rights protests, in the Freedom Rides through Cambridge. As part of the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, Marc helped organize poor white communities with the Young Patriots, the white Appalachian counterpart to the Black Panthers. Early in his career he counseled at-risk youth in therapeutic settings and founded a theater program in the Maryland State prison system. He also taught Theatre for 10 years at the Baltimore School for the Arts. From 1993 through 1997 his signature “Marc Steiner Show” aired on Baltimore’s public radio airwaves, both WYPR – which Marc co-founded – and Morgan State University’s WEAA

A far left radical, not a reliable source.

 

[countryboy]

Are you going to look for a job tomorrow???????????

Are you going to take a remedial course in 5th grade English?

 

[signalmankenneth]

Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less?!!

 

[Noking]

Are you going to take a remedial course in 5th grade English?

Don't you feel guilty leeching off the tax payers??????????????

 

[Ichabod Stain]

LMAO... that is complete nonsense.

The MEDIAN income is $47,000. No way the 50%-40% dropoff is that steep.

Note that your article doesn't provide a source for that claim?

you know median is horsesshit. thats just the middle value in a range.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

there really is an income problem for many. the question is: what do we do about it.

 

[TTQ64]

Capitalism is slave labor.

Racism has been around long before Capitalism......racism is built directly into capitalism.

Racist white men profit heavily off of slave labor.

They have convinced white america that working fast food isn't really a job so they can pay slave labor and make trillions.

 

[TTQ64]

there really is an income problem for many. the question is: what do we do about it.

Raise the minimum wage to $25.00 hr.

 

[Flash]

Trump's low unemployment economy simply means millions are working 2-3 jobs, of course most positions are filled

same was true under Obama, Bush, and Clinton only to a lesser extent

Now you sound like AOC with her economics degree. Unemployment is not lower whether a person has one or five jobs. It is the percentage of people working (who want to work) and not what percent of jobs are filled.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

why isn't katz coming back to defend his thread?.....

 

[Loving91390]

why isn't katz coming back to defend his thread?.....

How do you defend .... a lie ?

 

[Flash]

Raise the minimum wage to $25.00 hr.

I know small business owners who do not make that much and they surely cannot afford to pay that to their workers.

 

[Flash]

Indeed.

Average Salary Information for US Workers
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median wage for workers in the United States in the first quarter of 2019 was $905 per week or $47,060 per year for a 40-hour workweek. Wages were 2.7% higher than on the same date for the previous year.

Thread fail due to being a lie...as almost every thread by the OP is a lie.

How are we supposed to whine and cry about how miserable we all are when you keep giving us facts?

 

[cawacko]

I know small business owners who do not make that much and they surely cannot afford to pay that to their workers.

For most that argue raising the minimum wage to $15, $20, $25 or $30/hr they just don’t care because they don’t understand the economics behind it. The government can’t force a McDonalds in BFE Mississippi to pay workers the same amount as a McDonald’s worker in San Francisco (when we’re talking $15+ hr) and expect there to not be an employment problem. It just doesn’t work that way.

 

[TTQ64]

I know small business owners who do not make that much and they surely cannot afford to pay that to their workers.

Then they don't need to be in business. If they can't run their business and pay a decent wage then they need to fold.

Business owners get breaks most folks don't get.

They are priority over everyone else.

 

[TTQ64]

For most that argue raising the minimum wage to $15, $20, $25 or $30/hr they just don’t care because they don’t understand the economics behind it. The government can’t force a McDonalds in BFE Mississippi to pay workers the same amount as a McDonald’s worker in San Francisco (when we’re talking $15+ hr) and expect there to not be an employment problem. It just doesn’t work that way.

STFU McDonalds makes BILLIONS of dollars they can afford to pay their employee 25 hr.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

Then they don't need to be in business. If they can't run their business and pay a decent wage then they need to fold.

Business owners get breaks most folks don't get.

They are priority over everyone else.

your idiot thoughts only serve the oligarchs who already run everything.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

STFU McDonalds makes BILLIONS of dollars they can afford to pay their employee 25 hr.

you're right on mcdonalds. there should be carve outs for small businesses, not big business like we have now. 25 might be too steep though.

 

[zymurgy]

this is every American worker

teenagers working part time

retired people adding to their earnings

it is a meaningless stat. shame on the op for thinking this is worthy of debate.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Then they don't need to be in business. If they can't run their business and pay a decent wage then they need to fold.

Business owners get breaks most folks don't get.

They are priority over everyone else.