Jul 14, 2015 ... Over the phase-in period of the increases, affected workers would receive nearly  $80 billion in increased wages. Once the increase is fully phased-in, the average  affected worker would earn roughly $2,300 more each year than she does today ( assuming no change in the number of work hours).
Apr 29, 2014 ... In a tweet, White House spokesman Jay Carney touted an infographic that asked,  among other things, "Who will raising the minimum wage actually help? … More  than half work full-time. The average worker is 35 years old." Carney's claim  focused on workers who will benefit from a wage hike, which is in ...
Jan 1, 2015 ... In a report he helped prepare for the Economic Policy Institute, Bernstein cited  data from the Congressional Budget Office describing the average minimum  wage worker as full-time and 35 years old. Those are the people who would be  helped if the wage were raised to $10.10, the report states. According ...
Jun 9, 2014 ... The analysis also includes a number of workers making slightly above $10.10,  who, history suggests, would receive a raise if the minimum wage were  increased. Minimum-wage workers are older than they used to be. Their average  age is 35, and 88 percent are at least 20 years old. Half are older than 30, ...
Sep 8, 2014 ... According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, last year 1.532 million hourly workers  earned the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour; nearly 1.8 million more earned  less than that because they fell under one of several exemptions (tipped  employees, full-time students, certain disabled workers and others), for a ...
Who will raising the minimum wage actually help? … More than half work full-time. The average worker is 35 years old.