Why Do Jobs Pay So Little?

“Half of the jobs in America currently pay less than $18 an hour, according to Labor Department data. That’s about $37,000 a year if someone works full-time. Forty percent of jobs in the country pay less than $15.50, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.”

“Forty-two (42) percent of U.S. workers make less than $15 per hour. Women and people of color are overrepresented in jobs paying less than a $15 wage.”

According to Amazon, 24.5% of employees are Black/African American.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/diversity-and-inclusion/our-workforce-data.

But, “More than 85 percent of Amazon’s black workers in the U.S. hold unskilled jobs, according to a review of the company’s diversity statistics by the Puget Sound Business Journal.”

When I worked at Amazon I could tell that the warehouse was staffed by mostly black people.

People wonder why black people have no money. Look at the jobs they have and the pay they receive. You can go to any major city in America to any restaurant or fast food chain and see that they are staffed mostly by black people. It doesn’t matter if the restaurant is in the suburbs with predominantly white residents or in…