Obama misleads with minimum-wage data

On April 28, the national news played excerpts of President Barack Obama's weekend radio address. Obama gave minimum-wage figures that caught my attention.

Obama said: 'Right now, there's a bill that would boost America's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. That would lift wages for nearly 28 million Americans across the country. ... And we're not just talking about young people on their first job. The average minimum-wage worker is 35 years old.”

Here's the reality. According to the latest facts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (from 2012), see http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.htm), '1.6 million earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 2 million had wages below the federal minimum.”

Let's see, 28 million people, says Obama, or at most 3.6 million, according to BLS (food prep/servers constitute 44 percent of these, with most probably receiving good tips). Either Obama had a major teleprompter malfunction or he's lying.

The BLS, in 2012, said the actual average age was about 23, not 35. ...

Shame on Obama for spewing blatant propaganda by intentionally diverting attention from his disastrous Obamacare, foreign policies/Benghazi cover-up and pathetic U.S. economic growth this year.

Thomas Gerhold

Atkins