First, no one is bragging they can or want to live on $7.25/hr, that’s a strawman. But the idea that people are actually working full-time at $7.25 is a bigger fantasy than this reality show idea. Workers earning the federal min wage are unicorns, here’s the data:
▪️Out of 76.1M workers who are paid at hourly rates, just 0.2% earn the Federal min wage of $7.25/hr. Only 0.1%, just 58K out of 76M hourly workers, are full-time. If you count all workers, only 0.04% work full-time at $7.25. They just don’t exist.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2021/home.htm
▪️There are a measurable amount (1.2% of hourly-paid workers) who earn below the fed min wage. Sometimes you’ll hear “at or below min wage” to describe them. But the min wage already doesn’t apply to these workers, so who are they?
▪️Some are intern-type jobs, but the vast majority, according to the BLS, are service jobs, leisure and hospitality in particular. And as the BLS admits, “For many of these workers, tips may supplement the hourly wages received.”
▪️Thus, the tiny fraction of workers who earn at or below the min wage are workers earning tips, which is why they accept such a low hourly rate. After all, even the lowest fast food jobs now pay much higher than $7.25.
▪️In fact, American workers now avg $33.03/hr, even production and nonsupervisory workers avg $28.26/hr. The lowest paid sectors are retail trade ($20.19/hr) and leisure & hospitality ($18.21/hr.) No one is working for $7.25, let alone a hard working full-timer.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm
▪️The positive thing about not raising the fed min wage for so long is we can see that it has no effect on raising the bar. In fact, the opposite. Unemployment continues to fall, while wages rise, albeit dampened by inflation (though the lowest paid jobs are keeping up with inflation).
▪️The narrative that, without the min wage employers would pay slave wages, is obviously not the case. And the longer it’s not raised the weaker the argument is for it. Which the left hates, so they continue to harp on fantasies about the unicorn workers making $7.25/hr.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
