Dee,

You must be living in a "fairy tale" world if yo believe this to be still
true. It is a simple fact that there is not the same type of jobs available
that were around in the 1965-1980's range of time. The changes in the
employment economy and shifts in employment trends are why. Take GM for
instance....... At least up here in the Tri- Cities and Flint, GM is
constantly cutting back, and even closing plants, not the opposite. Hell,
locally speaking, Dow Chemical and Dow Corning also have cut more than half
their workforce in the past 15 years or so.

Construction jobs around here suck, unless you hold "paper" you are nothing
and still making the under 8 dollar an hour range wage, before taxes. I can
bring up more examples if you want referring to my area if ya want.


--
Ryan KC8PMX

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no
attention to criticism.



And at that time minimum wage was about $1.50 per hour. It wasn't a
living
wage then either. Entry level jobs have never provided the income to
support a family. Anyone that I have ever known in my lifetime (52 years)
that made minimum wage either lived with their parents or other relatives,
a
group of roommates, or had a working spouse even back when I was a child.
No adult male that I knew stayed in a minimum wage job any longer than it
took to find something else because they could not pay groc, rent, and
transportation on that. It has never been high enough to do so.

Wages versus costs is all relative. You have to look at how many hours it
takes to buy something. The majority of items but not all take fewer
hours
of work to purchase than they did in 1976. The cost of electronics is
down
in terms of hours to buy. The cost of houses is about the same in terms
of
hours.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE