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The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 25, 2008

Regarding "Minimum Wage Increase 'Will Help Out A Little' " (Business, July 24):

Your article on the minimum-wage increase failed to mention that most minimum-wage workers are high school kids on summer jobs, college kids and people on their first job.

The article highlighted two workers. The first one supports a family of seven with his fiancee. It sounds like he did most (or all) of the things that guarantee poverty. Not a lot of self-improvement going on there.

Or with the other man, who's worked at minimum-wage jobs for 18 years.

And even the 5 million workers who are at minimum-wage level. Sounds like a lot. But when you consider that there are almost 150 million workers, and take out the teenagers/first timers and so forth, it's really not many at all.

ERNEST LANE

Trinity

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