Peter D. Hart Research Associates, AFL-CIO, 1999. If someone doesn't have any education, but they want to go to work at Wendy's to raise their two kids or something, they should be able to get by on minimum wage. I think minimum wage should be enough to get you by. Young white-collar woman, New York City Young workers without degrees feel more insecure about the future. They are facing a host of financial and economic pressures that many college graduates are escaping.
Life is even more difficult for young people of color without college degrees.
Only 29 percent of young Latino and African American workers without degrees say their pay, benefits and overall job situation are fine or need only small improvements.