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Fox News host Neil Cavuto has a special message for living-wage activists: Deal with it. \u201cIt\u2019s like jobs aren\u2019t enough these days,“ he said on Tuesday. \u201cThey better pay well, or folks just aren\u2019t applying for them at all.” As proof, he cited his own teenage years serving fried fish in Connecticut:<\/p>\n

Only in America today, can our politicians bemoan a livable wage, forgetting a lot of folks would be grateful for any wage, any chance, any job, anytime. All I know is as soon as I turned 16 and heard a fast food chain called Arthur Treacher\u2019s was opening a store in my town of Danbury, Connecticut. I stood in a line for a position\u2014any position. I got the job, and soon rocketed to relief manager, then weekend manager, then by 16 and a half, full-time store manager! And it all started at two bucks an hour. And all the fish I could eat.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a good story. But the math makes the opposite point Cavuto intended\u2014adjusted for inflation, he made a lot more money as a teenager than the fast food employees who walked off their jobs in seven US cities this week. Cavuto says he made $2 per hour when he was 16, which would have been around late 1974. That\u2019s $9.47 per hour in today\u2019s dollars\u2014or $.28 per hour more than Washington state\u2019s minimum wage, which is the nation\u2019s highest. Cavuto made the equivalent of $1.02 per hour more than the current minimum wage in Connecticut today and $2.22 per hour more than the current federal minimum wage. His starting wage was $2.17 more than Saavedra Jantuah made at the Burger King on 34th St. in New York City before she walked off the job in protest last November because she was unable to feed her son.<\/p>\n

Cavuto\u2019s riff also misses the larger point, which is that the living-wage fight isn\u2019t about 16-year-olds with no kids whose parents cover their basic living expenses. The median fast food worker is 28 years old, and the median female fast food worker is 32. Their wages have dropped an average of 36 cents since 2010. And they\u2019re making less than Neil Cavuto ever did.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mother Jones<\/strong><\/em>, “Fox News\u2019s Neil Cavuto Doesn\u2019t Know How Inflation Works”<\/a><\/strong> (via inothernews<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News host Neil Cavuto has a special message for living-wage activists: Deal with it. \u201cIt\u2019s like jobs aren\u2019t enough these days,“ he said on Tuesday. \u201cThey better pay well, or folks just aren\u2019t applying for them at all.” As proof, he cited his own teenage years serving fried fish in Connecticut: Only in America … <\/p>\n

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