http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/13/scott-walker-joins-gop-crusade-denigrating-americans-work-ethic.html
The fact is that over the past 20 years, the US economy has grown by
over 60%, and it is due in no insignificant part to a huge increase in
productivity of America’s labor force who are working harder and
longer, and boosted corporate profits by 20% as of 2011. Meanwhile,
wages have stagnated to the point that if Americans’ median income had
kept pace with the economic growth due to their higher productivity that
went to corporate profits, the annual median income would now be well
over $92,000 and not $45,000. Minimum wage workers are extremely
fortunate to earn below or near the federal poverty line if they have at
least full-time employment with an additional part time job. Three
years ago a year’s earnings at minimum wage was approximately $15,080,
well below the federal poverty line. At the time (2011) the minimum
income required for a single worker to have even nominal economic
security was $30,000 annually; or the equivalent of two full-time
minimum-wage jobs. Still, Republicans claim the real problem is that
Americans are lazy and need to learn the value and culture of hard work,
and it is telling about their contempt for workers that they are not
remiss to say it often and in public without fear of facing the
electorate’s wrath.
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