BTW the same could be said of McCain-Palin: they speak of gas-tax-holidays and windfall-profit taxes in the same breath as if it was the most natural thing to do.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2005tbls.htm

The point I was trying to make was that when you parse the numbers, even though most min. wage workers are women, there are VERY few women trying to raise a family at a full time job at mininum wage. If you look at all the numbers, yes, most are teenagers. 29% are women over 25. And of those, the vast majority fit into the categories I described. I screwed up my wording, because I don't know how many are mothers. For instance, 60% of all min. wage workers are in food service, where their total income will almost certainly be much higher than the stated wage, and 60% are less than 25 hours per week or varying hours, and half of the over 25 set have a spouse present. So, just factoring that in, you're down to something like 2% of min. wage workers being unmarried women over 25 who aren't earning tips and are anywhere near full time. That's something like 40,000 people nationwide, just by factoring in those few details. Once you factor in all these things, you're left with a very small number of women who could possibly be working min. wage full time trying to raise a family.
The number is so small, that I would doubt that the anecdotes we hear from the candidates about min. wage earners finding them on the campaign trail & telling them their hard luck stories are true at all. Even if the candidates weren't known to tell a tall tale when it suited them, statistically, it would be hard to find the people they are describing even if you were looking for them.

P.S. Methinks (please accept this compliment with good humour–as I am sure you will), but you argue like a man–please keep swinging.