Right data.(problems with raising minimum wage)(Column)

National Review | June 17, 1996| | Copyright

DICK Armey makes $148,400 a year. That's nearly 10 times the $15,500 poverty threshold for a four-person family. At $4.25 an hour, a full-time minimum-wage worker earns just $8,500 a year. Yet Armey opposes ''with every fiber of my being'' an increase in the minimum wage.

A callous majority leader? Not exactly. Armey, a former economics professor, knows the numbers. About half of all minimum-wage workers are under 21. Most are not poor -- 68.2 per cent live in families with income two or more times the poverty line. And for less advantaged youth, whose work is crucial ...

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