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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.
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".
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.
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.
As corporations have gotten bigger, they have shown less and less concern for those that work for them. These days, employees are generally regarded as “expensive liabilities” that are to be discarded the moment that their usefulness has come to an end. And news of layoffs is often rewarded by Wall Street by a surge in the stock prices of the companies making those layoffs.
There is a good reason workers are not as valued today. There is a huge supply of them. Wages are down and if they need to replace someone, there are a lot of decent workers that are underpaid and/or unemployed. Again, it comes down to supply and demand. Companies will start to value their employees more when they NEED them and are afraid to lose them.
Good article, but the author fails to mention immigration, legal and illegal. We have brought in 30 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS SINCE 1990. At any one time there are 2 million LEGAL GUEST WORKERS in this country, And then there are the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. Is it any wonder that we have low labor participation rates and depressed wages?
Obamanomics at it’s finest when he said change he mint that’s what you will be working for however per MSM he’s black what could go wrong white guilt is eased.
Interesting thread.
We’ve Pavlov trained a couple of generations that you come out further ahead voting for it than working for it.
We are SCROOOOOOOOD.
Per recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2013), there are 75.9 million hourly-paid workers in the USA, and 96% of these earn more than the federally established minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
Only 2% of 75.9 million hourly-paid workers make $7.25 per hour. The other 2%, in legally exempt categories such as tippable food service or full-time student jobs, may earn less than minimum.
Half of minimum wage workers are 16-24 years old; half of those are teenagers (16-19). Sixty-four percent of minimum wage jobs are part time. (Pew Research)
Why is the left obsessed with raising the federal minimum wage if only a tiny sliver of the hourly-paid workforce work at this wage level? Though the left couldn’t care less about teenage hamburger flippers, order takers, and sundry clerks who may be let go or replaced by machines because of hikes in minimum wage, government and union labor contracts build in automatic wage increases pursuant to federal minimum wage hikes. Raising the minimum wage, therefore, has a significant multiplier effect in rewarding union and government sectors who feed the political bosses.
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