The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

And I mean spines and knees wearing out is terrible but at least people recognize that those wear out. Americans are so stressed out from all this **** they're gunning people down in the in schools and Walmarts just so someone will notice that they're angry and need help.

****ing exactly

Don’t back off that truth when you sober up if you’re drunk

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

"Millions"? Bull****. In the whole U.S. there are literally around 550k or so people working minimum wage according to the BLS. And even when you look at people right above that threshold, the total number is around 1.2 million, which represents literally only 2.3% of ALL people in the country who works a job that pays hourly.

I'd be interested in seeing unions coming back stronger and a lot of other changes though.

Dafuq?



Source: Fortune

[Anteater]

This is from 2017, which is three years younger than what you are citing. Even if you fast forward to 2019, these numbers haven't changed much.

In 2017, 80.4 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.3 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 542,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.3 million had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 1.8 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 2.3 percent of all hourly paid workers.

The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 2.7 percent in 2016 to 2.3 percent in 2017. This remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979, when data were first collected on a regular basis. (See table 10.)

This report presents highlights and statistical tables describing workers who earned at or below the federal minimum wage in 2017. The data are obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a national monthly survey of approximately 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Information on earnings is collected from one-fourth of the CPS sample each month.

[The Batlord]

Ant's the kinda boss who makes up peppy nicknames for all his employees and thinks they all like him but secretly they want to throw their coffee in his face for not remembering their name.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by anteater

this is from 2017, which is three years younger than what you are citing.

"AT OR BELOW" i

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Ant's the kinda boss who makes up peppy nicknames for all his employees and thinks they all like him but secretly they want to throw their coffee in his face for not remembering their name.

See boys & girls, Carter here gets it.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

"AT OR BELOW" i

How many people (in comparison) are working hourly jobs that pay well above that threshold? There's your actual millions.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

This is from 2017, which is three years younger than what you are citing. Even if you fast forward to 2019, these numbers haven't changed much.

Your BLS stats represent a Holocaust

it show tens of millions at starvation no doctor wages you goddamn fool

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

How many people (in comparison) are working hourly jobs that pay well above that threshold? There's your actual millions.

My chart shows $15 and under

Wtf more do you need

People in big cities making just over their goddamn rent

You’re ****ing lost

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Your BLS stats represent a Holocaust

it show tens of millions at starvation no doctor wages you goddamn fool

So people who are making $20 or more an hour are also uninsured?

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

My chart shows $15 and under

Wtf more do you need

People in big cities making just over their goddamn rent

You’re ****ing lost

The legal U.S. population is (roughly) 329,513,047 at the moment. Therefore, the vast majority of people are well above minimum wage, no? This is based on what your showing me AND what I've already shown you.

Your chart's data also has no actual reference points for how many millions any of those demographics represent. It doesn't gel with actual data out there.