Nov 12, 2015 ... "We're talking about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. … Over half of the  black workers in this country earn less." We wondered whether Sanders was right  that "over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour. So  we took a closer look. We turned to the most recent data from ...
Apr 13, 2015 ... It's easy to assume that workers earning less than $15 is a small subset of the  workforce. But, in fact, 42% of all workers in the United States fit this bill. Just over  half of all African Americans earn less than $15 an hour, and nearly 60% of  Latinos make that hourly sum. 2. They are disproportionately female, ...
Nov 11, 2015 ... According to the think tank National Employment Law Project, over four in 10  workers nationwide earn less than $15 per hour. Food services have the ... And  the intensifying political debate over wage inequality opens another debate  around the disproportionate impoverishment of black and Latino workers.
$15 an hour.12 In fact, the US has the highest proportion of low-wage jobs of any  rich country in the world.13. The numbers are stunning: more than four in 10 ( 43.7percent) workers in the US earn under $15 an hour (58.3 million work- ers). 14 Nearly 41.7 million people earn under $12 an hour, which translates to less  than ...
Aug 10, 2016 ... Across the country, more than half of black workers and nearly 60% of Latino  workers are paid less than $15 per hour.
Over half of the black workers in this country earn less than $15 an hour.