ToddsterPatriot, other than the obvious error of referring to the "federal minimum" as the "federal mineral" wage rate, The paragraph's correct. Your difficulty is due to your inability to understand what you read. Respectfully, SupposnDid you use a random word generator to create this gibberish?... Unfortunately within each population segment of income brackets, the segments' population of income earners are distributed in the opposite manner; the lower wage rate earners are more, and the higher wage rate earners within their income brackets are less represented. Due to this being the cases, if the federal mineral wage rate's insufficient, the median wage rate's also comparatively insufficient. ...