Labor on the Joe Rogan Experience

“So we put a lot of pressure. We are trying to raise the minimum wage, federal minimum wage to 17 bucks an hour.”

Sanders is pushing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour.

“So that for example, right now in Washington, the national minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.”

The US federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour.

“Where there are two and a half million call center workers still in the United States. Generally high school graduates that make about $14 an hour.”

Yang claims there are 2.5 million call center workers in the US and predicts AI will become indistinguishable from a human very soon.

“Being a retail worker is the most common job in the United States right now. The average retail worker is a 39-year-old woman with a high school education maki…”

Yang claims retail worker is the most common job in the US and profiles the average retail worker as a 39-year-old woman earning $11-12/hour.

“only six percent of american high school students are in technical or vocational training in germany that's 59”

Yang claims only 6% of American high school students are in technical/vocational training compared to 59% in Germany.

“The underemployment rate for recent college graduates today is 44%.”

Yang claims the underemployment rate for recent college graduates is 44%.

“there are three and a half million truck drivers in this country right now. It's the most common job in 29 states. And the average trucker is a 49-year-old guy”

Yang claims trucking is the most common job in 29 US states.

“Like 94 million or so Americans have left the workforce over the last number of years. Now, a lot of that's natural demographics, a lot of that's people in sch…”

Yang cites a figure of 94 million Americans having left the workforce, attributing a subset (5 million) to unskilled men pushed out by automation.