Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less

33 thoughts on “Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less”

1. Not every job is worth paying a living wage for though. That's just the reality.

2. That's absolutely ridiculous 18000 doesn't pay rent and food for a studio apt

3. Brothers and sisters work for yourself. Use your skills if not talent. Why do we black folks have to keep working for the white mans companies for 40 hours a week and the government demands there cut of your hard earn money. That’s modern day slavery. The rich pay less tax and the poor pay more. The rich get all the fresh food and non toxic food and we the people get food town. Please my people sell your own by using your head, skills, talents, learn to network with black all own companies never be scare to call or knock on the door of opportunity. Let’s break the modern day slave trade with white America.

4. dude looks like a mixture of dustin hoffman & dr. strange

5. The title of this video is simply false. Pretty sad for the "Real News" network to falsely state the facts. The 44% number comes from a Brookings Institution study which looked at workers they consider "low wage workers." That group was 44% of workers between the ages of 18 and 64 with a few exclusions like full time students. The median income of that group of low wage workers was $18,000 a year. The median means that half earned less and half earned more. So only 22% of workers earn $18,000 or less. Of all the low wage workers, 57% worked full time year round. 15% don't speak English very well. And 12% are enrolled in school. 26% of the 44% were the sole earner in a family. It doesn't help the argument to miss-state the facts.

6. Why don’t unions have solidarity? Why don’t they all work together for benefits for all unions? Why don’t they work internationally? Why don’t they have a general strike? Why don’t they work together to get everyone into a union?

7. Miss me with that noise. A person who make $9.37 an hour working 160 full time hours a month gross $18,000.00 a year. A E1 private in the United States Army earns $20,175.00 a year starting pay and…..gets close to a $200 a month pay raise automatically in six months. If someone doesn't have the educational background or a criminal background that prevents them from earning over $9.37 as hour? Sucks to be them. They should have made better life decisions.

8. When Obama was president, Trump complained constantly that the real unemploymetn rate was 42%. I haven't heard him say that for 3 years.

9. "Between the end of World War II and 1968, the minimum wage tracked average productivity growth fairly closely. Since 1968, however, productivity growth has far outpaced the minimum wage. If the minimum wage had continued to move with average productivity after 1968, it would have reached $21.72 per hour in 2012…"
   2012 – $21.72.
   2020 – You do the math.
   http://cepr.net/blogs/cepr-blog/new-cepr-issue-brief-shows-minimum-wage-has-room-to-grow

10. lol..imagine being an adult and making 18k a year! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

11. and of course the whores in the main stream media will never address this…even the fake left gives trump the pass on this so called ' great economy'.

12. I wonder if Trump has any idea what the reality really is? When are they going to turn that helicopter off?
    The criminal global banking cartel just keep printing more money which is used to prop up the stock market. This not only devalues the currency but the private sector you and me have to pay back the principal and interest on this.

13. So what do the marxists and neo-liberals at real news suggest?

14. Spot on

15. Capitalism, f.ck yeah !

16. Your title is incorrect. The Social Security Ad. report on wages, mentioned below, shows that 50% earn less than $32,838, and 33.6% (about a third) make less than $20,000 a year. And the BLS stats show that 16.4% work part-time and 3.6% are out of work. So 20% are out of work or working part-time, officially. And we can assume the full-time employed year-round are the next 13.6% who earn less than $20,000. Maybe 11% of full-time workers earn less than $18,000 per year, not the 44% of your title. Not a big deal, but let's try for greater accuracy. 41.4% of American live in households with incomes below 200% (or double) the official poverty threshold (which is way too low to be accurate). Scholars say that 140% or 150% of poverty threshold is the real poverty level, some say 200%. The Jobs Quality Index in its report shows that since 2000 some 32 million new jobs were added by private employers, and 5 out of 8 were the low-wage low-hours jobs, that's 62.5% of jobs added in last 20 years are not living wage jobs. The JQI shows that that low wage job employs 30 hours per week, paying $17.40 an hour, or $528 per week, and if all year, and many must be part year jobs, it pays $27,460 a year. I believe this does not match the SSA report, and the SSA is most accurate. As I mentioned below, the combined earnings of the lower-half is just 8.0% of the entire national income, as given by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, $15.005 trillion. Who receives the other 92% of national income? What we can do is vote for a very progressive into government — Congress, Presidency, state and local government — and increase minimum wage, and increase union power and create millions of Green energy and public housing jobs and infrastructure jobs. my blog: http://benL88.blogspot.com

17. It's worse. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dept. Commerce, shows 33 million working part-time or not working, unemployed — and the Social Security wage report shows 33 million earning less than $10,000 a year. Together that is 20% of all who work or want to work. Their average yearly income in 2018 was about $4,116 a year. Incredible. See the SSA report here: https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2018 — Together the lower-earning half earn 8.0% of the total income the economy generates, or #1.3 trillion out of $15 trillion (the Joint Committee on Taxation, Overview, figure for total income). Half is equal to 83 million workers all earning less than $32,838 a year, and their average income is $14,300, and if one works full-time at $72.5 an hour for a full year, that worker earns $15,080. Half have an average income less than a full-time year-round worker. A report from Saez, Piketty, and Zucman, the Distributional National Accounts, shows that the top 10% earn between 47% to 51% of the total pre-tax income in the economy. Their report also shows that the income of the 1% is 81 times the average income of the lower 50%, per adult. They say it is about like this in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, or Central African Republic. Without a doubt, the U.S. economy is very sick. My blog http://benL88.blogspot.com

18. Can Americans even afford to live in trailer parks on $18,000.00 a year?

19. There are plenty of good paying jobs. People are lazy.

20. And you wonder why kids aren't moving out? They're too low-paid to do so.

21. The economy is doing great! – Every media channel ever

22. This vid is horse shit. The average annual wage is mid 30s. Source is us debt national clock its real time btw!! Be informed sheeple

23. The job rate is up for serfdom! Wage slaves and Cannon fodder is the new economy for the American poor by the GOP the anti-US Constitution and America party i.e the party for the rich elite and their mega-corporations! GOP is for the criminal Trump rather than America and the US Constitution by their actions yesterday on the vote for impeachment! GOP are lackey's of the rich elite

24. If you don't like your wages just get a different jo-…shit…

25. FACTS! This is the reality that gets ignored. Even so called middle class people are working 2 & 3 jobs to make it

26. Many delivery companys are hiring no benefit contractor companys and this is the overall treand these days.

27. Yea,more lies from the Trump Administration. Our government has been lying about the numbers on the economy for years.

28. Unemployment is a terrible metric by which to measure the economy. For example: in a slavery economy unemployment is 0%.

29. i can barely live with 28,000 a year

30. 18,000 is a slave wage

31. I knew something is fishy about the unemployment statistics…

32. Meanwhile great paying careers abound. Many of which require no college degree.

    The problem is motivation. Most would rather stay poor than take up a career that is "beneath them"..

    Think I'm full of shit? Go on Craigslist at look a job section other than retail..

33. And, the bich cutting food stamps. •sighs•

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