claim: "about 2 percent of americans get paid the minimum wage."
author: rob portman
evidence_1: mississippi, and tennessee (all between 6 percent and 7 percent). the states  with the lowest percentages of hourly paid workers earning at or below the  federal minimum wage were alaska, california, oregon, and washington. (all  between 1 percent and 2 percent). it should be noted that some states have  minimum wage ...
evidence_2: a number of states have established minimum wage rates that exceed the federal  level. (information on state minimum wage laws is available at www.dol.gov/whd/ minwage/america.htm.) users should be cautious about ...
evidence_3: jan 30, 2014 ... that leaves only about 1.1 percent of all workers over 25 and 0.8 percent of all  americans over 25 earning the minimum wage. wendy's shopping cart ... is  down to only 4.7 percent. further, almost two-thirds of today's minimum wage  workers are in the service industry and nearly half work in food service.
evidence_4: sep 8, 2014 ... given the continuing campaigns by unions, workers, politicians and others to  raise the federal minimum wage, it bears asking: just who are minimum-wage  workers, anyway? perhaps surprisingly, not very many people earn minimum  wage, and they make up a smaller share of the workforce than they used ...
evidence_5: jan 1, 2015 ... the next largest demographic distribution is hispanics, followed by african- americans. this distribution closely mirrors that of hourly paid workers. but what  about the percentage of each ethnicity that earns the minimum wage? nearly 5  percent of african-americans earn the minimum wage or less — that's ...