claim: "only one out of 10 minimum wage workers today are teen age or a young person."
author: katrina vanden heuvel
evidence_1: 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 ... among  employed teenagers (ages 16 to 19) paid by the hour, about 10 percent ... about  6 percent of part-time workers (persons who usually work fewer than 35 hours  per ...
evidence_2: sep 1, 2016 ... we can't predict how workers will use their day off, but we do know a fair ... in-ten  americans (82%) said manufacturing and factory workers ... million people, or  about 10 percent of the active workforce in 2014, were self-employed. ... among  even younger working adults, ages 16 to 24, the gender wage gap ...
evidence_3: one of the prime reasons for this drastic employment drought is the ... high  minimum wage rates price teens out of jobs. ... nearly half of all minimum wage  earners are teenagers or young people still living ... according to the bureau of  labor statistics, only 32.6 percent of teenagers ages 16 to 19 were employed in  2008.
evidence_4: (see table 10.) ... 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 half of those paid the federal minimum wage or less. ... about  6 percent of part-time workers (persons who usually work fewer than 35 hours  per week) ...
evidence_5: it defines children as being aged under 16 and young persons refers to those  aged 16 and 17. ... the maximum working week for children outside school term  time is 35 ... young persons are only permitted to work between 6am and 10pm.  ... your employer can pay you more than the minimum wage if they want, but you  ...