claim: "over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: 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 ...
evidence_2: 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, ...
evidence_3: 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.
evidence_4: $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 ...
evidence_5: 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.