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m3talsmith · Aug 24, 2004, 04:25 pm

I might also add to the bottom part of my post 2 posts earlier, that this is not a new concept. There's even a conceptual name for this. When your in an economy where the workers wages are high as well as demand it is called an employees market. When it's the opposite, wages low and demand low, it's called an employers market.

That points to the obvious (the post I'm referring to) but it took a while me a long time to figure it out and for it to really sink in.

Take a bit and think about it, before posting an answer. If you come up with a reasonable, reasonable meaning well thought out, showing that you have consider what I posted, answer that's different, I would be very interested in it.

Gorgo · Aug 24, 2004, 04:44 pm

http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issuegui...ge_minwagefacts

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Originally posted by tivodan1116,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (tivodan1116,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
- Teenagers (who do not support families) are disproportionately represented. While teens ages 18 and under are 27.3% of minimum wage earners, they are only 7.5% of the labor force as a whole.
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Teenagers do contribute to their families. If I am young and do a job, should I be paid less because I'm young?
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- Most minimum wage earners are not full-time employees. Only 17.4% of people earning minimum wage work an average of more than 35 hours per week.

- 75.1% of minimum wage jobs are less than 20 hours per week.

- The average minimum wage earner only worked 9.2 hours per week in 1998.

So is it true that a worker cannot support a family on minimum wage? Most likely. Is it also clear that most people are not attempting (or finding it nessecary) to do so? Yes.[/quote]

Again, because they are working part-time, maybe more than one part-time job, that means that they don't want to work full time? Or that they should be paid less than someone else because they work part-time?

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m3talsmith Igneous Magma Location: Southern, MI Posts: 400	I might also add to the bottom part of my post 2 posts earlier, that this is not a new concept. There's even a conceptual name for this. When your in an economy where the workers wages are high as well as demand it is called an employees market. When it's the opposite, wages low and demand low, it's called an employers market. That points to the obvious (the post I'm referring to) but it took a while me a long time to figure it out and for it to really sink in. Take a bit and think about it, before posting an answer. If you come up with a reasonable, reasonable meaning well thought out, showing that you have consider what I posted, answer that's different, I would be very interested in it. One vote for for Freedom. One vote for Michael Badnarik for President. One vote that won't be wasted this year.