[hybrid]

I can't believe people settle for that kind of job.

Have you read the book, "Nickeled and Dimed" before? A very good experiment by a woman who decided to try and find good jobs with the standard, "I've been married and raising kids and now I have to re-enter the workforce with no experiences." She was actually a writer of many years. She had good health, and starter money. And she found it can be done. If you work yourself to death, essentially. It was miserable, it was horrible, she couldn't find a job that paid enough for even mediocre housing...

[leoncaruthers]

How, precisely, is one person doing something one time a "good experiment"? Her book is on par with the anti-capitalist propaganda pushed by Morgan Spurlock (who did a similar "experiment" on his TV show, rigged to fail).

All a higher (or any) minimum wage law does is encourgage disobedience to the law and lower rates of lawful employment. There are plenty of tasks that need doing that simply aren't worth x dollars per hour to do, whatever x happens to be. The real minimum wage is and always will be zero, and in every study of the policy (as mentioned in the article), minimum wage laws only serve to increase the number of those earning zero.

[AppyPappy]

she couldn't find a job that paid enough for even mediocre housing

Mediocre housing is 90% better than places I have lived. How about a DORM? It's like a prison cell without a toilet.

Cry me a river.