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4.9% of US pop. working at or below minimum wage is hardly insignificant.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2009.htm




You are misreading. It's 0.8% of the US population and 4.9% of hourly (i.e., nonsalaried) workers.


Ah, yes, thanks. Still, I doubt 3.6 mil workers is an economically ineffectual number.


They are all teenagers or part-timers.




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