Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Quick Minimum Wage Facts

"According to Statistics Canada data for last September, almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers in Canada are women. One in three teenagers age 15 to 19 work for minimum wage - accounting for nearly half of the minimum wage earners in the country, StatsCan says. ... Another 17 per cent of minimum wage workers are age 20 to 24, and nearly half of them are students."

-- Natalie Goldenberg-Fife, "Minimum wage hike is peanuts", The Gazette, May 1/06


(From an email on the OW-Watch email list.)

2 comments:

rabfish said...

good review

Scott Neigh said...

Thanks Rabfish! :)

(I assume you meant this comment to go on the post above, rather than this one, and just clicked the wrong link?)