Politifact rates “false” Gov. Scott Walker’s claim last week that "Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce.”

Walker made the statement on MSNBC in response to a question asking his views on raising the federal minimum wage, which he opposes.

Walker recalled his own experience at a teen working at McDonald’s.

“The last thing you want to do is have fewer young people (working) at a time when unemployment rates are still way too high for teenagers going into their 20s," he said, explaining his opposition to raising the minimum wage.

Politifact took a look at the data, which showed that while young people make up a disproportionately large segment of minimum wage earners, the word “overwhelming” overstates their proportion.

“The best estimates are that 24 percent to 55 percent of such jobs are held by teenagers and young adults,” Politifact says. “That’s a lot, and from a relatively small component of the overall hourly-wage workforce, but his use of ‘overwhelming’ strong suggests that a very large majority of those jobs are held by young people. They are not.”

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