Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker dismisses emotional arguments about low-wage workers by claiming such families do not exist.
- In plain terms
- Arguments about poor families earning minimum wage are dismissed as false.
- What can you take from it?
- Dispute emotional claims by challenging their factual basis.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we verify economic claims?
- When do emotions override facts?
Another view
The claim that such families do not exist contradicts many economic studies.
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