Correction, please!
In attempting to back up that assertion, he had to go to the wrong side of the facts. Though it doesn’t fit with the White House narrative, relatively few heads of families rely just on the mandatory minimum wage. And raising the minimum wage is, as Eli Lehrer has expressed it in Reason.com, “simply a terrible way to help the poor.” Many of those who earn the minimum wage, writes Lehrer, “aren’t poor at all. Roughly 42 percent live with a parent or relative, while another 18 percent are married second income earners, which helps explain why the average family income of a minimum wage earner is $53,000 per year.”
