SECTOR
More than 37% of workers who earned the federal minimum wage in 2019 were employed in restaurants, hotels and other parts of the hospitality sector, according to the Labor Department.
"Consequently, I am again expressing my hope that the Congress will enact it this session, A wage and hour bill, putting a floor under industrial wages and a limit on working hours." — FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
AGE
"Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they made up about two-fifths of those paid the federal minimum wage."
"There is no justice when all over this country people are working long hours for abysmally low wages, $7.25 an hour $8 an hour, while 58% of all new income being created today goes to the top one percent." — SEN. BERNIE SANDERS
SECTOR
3% of women are paid minimum wage compared to their male counterparts at 1%.
"I know so many folk come to my job and they see me smile at McDonald's and I'm happy, but they dont know i haven't seen a doctor in 18 years. I don't have dental insurance, I've never had a paid vacation or anything of that nature." — TERRENCE WISE