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Old 09-21-2019, 04:06 PM   #19145 (permalink)
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And out of the 80.4 million people being paid any kind of hourly rate, that's 2.3% (or less) of the total. And that's still only a chunk of the total U.S. population. Those 80 million represent (supposedly) around 58.3 of all salaried workers in the United States. So let's say the ultimate grand total (taking that number into consideration) is 160 million or so.
Wait, so 170 million Americans are unemployed or paid under the table (which usually means less than minimum wage)?
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