rightwinger
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YesMinimum wage is paid to college students looking to pay for their education. Because the wage has been frozen for over a decade, college students must borrow money to make up the differenceYa think?
Minimum wage workers are about 3 percent of the workforce. Cutting minimum wage workers will have minimal effect
If you own a business and want to sweep your own floors and clean your own toilets....you can
If they have to pay someone $15/hr to do it, then that may be their only choice if they want to stay in business.
the falacy here is that people are trying to support families on minimum wage jobs. Minimum wage is only paid to teens for summer work or for the most unskilled labor, very few fast food outlets are paying minimum wage. Here in NOLA the fast food places are advertising starting jobs at above minimum wage, some even with starting bonuses.
the whole minimum wage issue if a false canard created by the dems to get americans yelling at each other.
totally wrong, college students have to borrow money because the price of tuition has risen much faster than the overall rate of inflation, and that happened directly as a result of the government giving out unlimited student loans. the colleges took advantage of that stupidity and raised their tuition costs, and the losers were the kids who now are burdened with huge debts. But fear not, the dems want to transfer that debt to YOU and ME.
Cost of everything has gone up.
I worked minimum wage at $2.10 an hour in the early 70s. I could buy seven gallons of gas for an hours wage. Today you get about 2 1/2 gallons
I could buy a new car for a half a years minimum wage salary. Now it would take you a full year
I could take a date to the movies for an hours wage. Today it would take you 2 1/2 hours pay
So WTF are you suggesting, minimum wage should be based on gas prices/new car prices/movie prices?
I think we should set a minimum wage and have increases automatically linked to the consumer price index
We can’t trust Congress to raise it. They have kicked that can down the road for over ten years