Chart 'O the Day
by digby
Where the minimum wage workers are:
I think what I find most shocking is the fact that minimum wage workers exist in the financial industry (what do they do?) or that "professional and business services" have such a high proportion of them.
But in any case, there are a whole lot of people in this rich country making about $290.00 a week (assuming they even work full time.) That ain't much folks.
Update: Kevin Drum offered this related chart 'o the day:
The United States is one of the richest countries in the world, with a top 1 percent that's seen its income triple or more in the past three decades. And yet, we also do the least to fight the rising tide of income inequality. Government programs in America reduce the level of inequality by only 26 percent. Nobody else is so stingy.
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