Really, I only had one coffee today.
Had to share this little diddy. It's the sort of catchy item that can go viral in this sound bite world we live in.
Wages are the biggest wreck of all in American
Here's the wage chart again.
The GOP screams about letting the tax break (a measely 4.6% btw) go up. They shout it will hurt small business. WHAT A CROCK!
ONLY 1% OF AMERICAN WAGE EARNERS EARN MORE THAN $250,000: A FACT!
Here's the heart breaking breakdown of US wages. No wonder everyone is so stressed out. Americans are poor!
99% earn less than $250,000
75% earn less than $42,000
50% earn less than $26,000 - MEDIAN WAGE*
40% earn less than $20,000
The Median Income in the USA is only $26,000 a year.
This is a great, great read. A couple of snippets below. I highly recommend reading the whole article.
Wages in America, Most of Us are Have Nots
What is a median? That is where 50% of the total workers earn less than that number and 50% earn more. The median is different from an average, which just sums up all of the wages earned and divides by the total. But that total includes the uber-rich, which skews the average wage way, way up! Since the United States has high income inequality, it's important to look at the median. What this says is 50% of Americans are living on $26,261 or less. That's poor people! That's less than $505 a week before taxes!
There are 150,917,735 wage earners in this country for 2009.
That said, 24,315,992 of them earned less than $5000.
50% earned less than $26,261 in 2009.
There are only 0.794% of wage earners who get more than $250,000 per year and only 1.266% of American salaries are over $200,000.
SO, PLEASE help me remind people that most of what the GOP says about the measely 4.6% rise in taxes on the so-called rich only applies to 0.794% of US workers.