Whiners, both the sobbing leftists and the "free market" loudmouths, have completely destroyed normal feedback the labor market in the US provides people who want to improve their lives by finding a better job.
At the low end, the combined effects of a surplus of labor and welfare without limits makes it unlikely someone would work a low wage job if they can avoid it and in addition makes it less likely they can find such a job because there are too many illegals in the labor pool who can only do the lowest paid jobs and often are willing to work off the books for half the minimum wage. Hire someone legally and there's workman's comp, SS, and the minimum wage. Hire an illegal and do whatever you like with your slave labor.
Just as bad, or worse, is the H1B program that distorts the actual demand for skilled labor and makes it seem less appealing to study to get a better job in several fields when every day you read about people in those fields being replaced by foreign workers. We need an America First market rather than our absorbing the surplus students from India and Asia.
Free traitors are really saying they want to distort the very system they say will make things right. It's a short term greed play, that's all, not any real desire for Free and Fair Trade.
JMHo
Fair Trade is by necessity Government Managed Trade and comes with all the petty interferences and controls and inefficiencies of any government managed anything. Free trade with controlled borders and no welfare and low or no business taxes and few regulations allows Americans to be what Americans have been for a century and more i.e. the most productive workers on earth per unit of input. That means a $15 an hour American (market rat $15, not union) produces more than 15 $1 per hour Malaysians. Businesses and industry would flood back into this country and employment would soar causing rising wages.