Many of America's minimum-wage workers are young and female

In Los Angeles, eight people are on a 15-day hunger strike to protest the city's hourly minimum wage, saying the rate should rise from $9 an hour to to $15.25 in the next four years. One is 19 years old and works at McDonald's; another is 46 and works at Burger King. All of the hunger-strikers are women, which is representative of the majority of the country's minimum-wage earners, according to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics study of the characteristics of American minimum-wage workers. The...