The minimum wage is just high enough to keep a single person with no
dependents from starving and freezing if they are willing to settle for
bare
bones survival. It's never been higher than that.

The hell it is.... to get by without living almost an institutional type of
life, a person needs to work at least 65 hours a week, every week to break
even.



The problem today, as more and more people become locked into lower
wages,
is that the minimum wage doesn't address the extra needs of the worker's
family or future. Taxpayers pay a price for that down the road (welfare,
food stamps, medical costs, student aid, and so on). If companies paid
better wages, much of that would be sharply reduced.


You are not supposed to stay in a minimum wage job. You get work
experience, demonstrate your ability to be dependable, get recommendations
(i.e "he/she is a hard worker") and move on.

Pure bull****, and more proof that some people live in a fairy tale world.
Employees are expendable as toilet paper regardless of how well you are as
an employee. I know many people who would make excellent candidates as the
"employee of the year," but still get passed up, or worse yet, let go
because of the fact they were merely nothing but a number on a balance
sheet/statement.



The solution is not to mandate a higher wage but to actively seek out
these
people and get them ready to move on to the better jobs by making
training,
etc accessible.

When I was young (too long ago), I worked minimum wage jobs but I
certainly
knew that was not something I should consider doing lifelong.


Once again, fairy tale world?? Most of the people who are not high
school/college students feel the same way, but are stuck in a rut that never
seems to fill in. Yes, education is a key, but the problem there is if you
are working 60+ hours or more per week, chances are there is not
opportunities to even take these classes. Fact number two, there is
something called financial aid, but it DOES NOT cover all of the educational
expenses, which are not going to be able to come out of those "minimum"
wages.


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Ryan KC8PMX

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