Posted on 05/13/2015 8:27:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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If I make one penny more than the “old” minimum wage, is my wage dependent on government?
If I already make one penny more than the “new” minimum wage, how will the increase help me?
These types of women used to work in manufacturing and make a decent wage but now they work at Burger King.
“At this point, the average age of a minimum wage worker in this country is 36, and 56 percent of them are women. “
I believe it. Every McD’s here in L.A. that I visited is choc full of Latinas in their 40’s.
RE: These types of women used to work in manufacturing and make a decent wage but now they work at Burger King.
They should try moving to places like Seattle, where the minimum wage is soon to become $15/hour.
Of course whether or not they can afford the cost of living there is another matter...
No, it only means there will be fewer workers being hired to work for minimum wage.
The stupid, it burns.
If you have a minimum wage job, you have limited skills to offer potential employers. That doesn’t mean you are a bad person, but you are paid what you are worth. It does not take a genius to stock shelves at Walmart. Work hard, try to improve your skills, and hopefully your wages and position at the company will improve. /life lesson 101
1. Are “American workers” all really working?
2. Are they working 40 hours a week or more?
3. What have they invested in the job — money, time, education, training...?
Those who have planned and invested in their future do better than those who smoke pot, drink booze, spend their weekends cruising or kneeling next to a toilet barfing or even better, committing crimes.
Even those who plan make some of these choices during planning. Obama’s kindergarten teachers likely chose their profession because they gets MONTHS rather than weeks of vacation time.
I don’t see how any of this is the government’s business anyway. All they will do by raising minimum wage is raise the cost of goods and services. When everything costs more, $15 won’t buy anything more than the current minimum wage buys. So then the government will call for price controls. On and on. Freedom RIP.
Obama is just repackaging communism by redefining old terms and phrases and by emotion emotion emotion (a leftist’s favorite tactic).
Duh. Minimum wage jobs were never supposed to be careers. Minimum wage jobs benefit those who aren’t able to have a career (people with small children/students/disabled/those who have another full time job and just want to make extra money on the side, etc), or those who don’t want to have a career (not everyone excels in life).
The problem is not the minimum wage jobs. The problem is the economy.
Calculating the average on a "bathtub curve" is disingenuous. Most minimum-wage workers are either young or old; most 36-year-olds are NOT making minimum wage. When the standard deviation from your average is nearly as wide as the data range, there's your clue that computing the average (median, mode) is wrong.
It's like calculating the average depth of the Grand Canyon: if you average out the entire park, you'll get something like "3 feet".
You walk into any retail store and you will see middle-aged men (obviously kicked out of the workforce by the Obama economy)at the cash register. Unheard of when I was a kid and I grew up in the Jimmy Carter economy!
I'm glad the article stated this. We have driven the entry level workers out and replaced them for more qualified workers at the entry level pay. Why? Because that's what liberals and democrats want. They are pushing for a two class society, the haves and have nots. Most libs probably do not even know it. They pander to the poor and TRY and take from the rich. But the rich re-organize to protect themselves. They shrink, they move off shore, they stash investment cash, etc. This is where the middle class gets crunched. The middle class is now forced to either move up or down a class.
Or the level of supply of potential workers with the skill set needed is much higher than for jobs requirement a higher level of skills.
“used to work in manufacturing and make a decent wage but now they work at Burger King. They should try moving to places like Seattle, where the minimum wage is soon to become $15/hour.”
...except that restaurants are fleeing Seattle. Can’t get a $15/hr minwage job at BK if there’s no BK in the $15/hr minwage region.
Nothing else works better for creating jobs at all levels. Nothing else works better for alleviating poverty and raising up the living standards of hard-workers. NOTHING.
Interesting article. Based on the headline, I was all set to expect to see a whiny screech as to why we need to raise the minimum wage. But it’s not about that.
If these numbers are to be believed, and I believe them, then we see what Obama has brought us to:
A nation of unskilled part-timers who struggle to make the middle class that America once had.
It will be this class of unemployable workers who would become the “Chekists” of the New Order when the Marxists take power.
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