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ketsuko
Obamacare has driven a lot of employers to cut employee hours down to under 30 hours per week in order to avoid the mandate which has created a nation of part-time workers, many of them minimum wage.
The current national minimum wage is $7.25/hour. For someone who had been working full-time, that earns $290/week.
However, there is now a push on to raise the federal minimum wage to $10/hour.
If people are working only 29 hours/week at $10/hour, they are making $290 ...
Coincidence? Or is this a cynical attempt to assuage the workers into not realizing how badly their hours and pay have actually been cut?
Of course, the flaw in the ointment here is that employers will still have the exact same labor needs they always have had. This makes paying labor much more costly to them even if the workers are working less hours per worker.
Overall, price increases are modest: For example, a 10% increase in the minimum wage would increase food prices by no more than 4% and overall prices by no more than 0.4%, significantly less than the minimum-wage increase.
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onequestion
Why don't all these idiots get real jobs or go to college and get away from this stupidity?
If they weren't so lazy, or prone to making poor decisions then they wouldnt have to have mothers and fathers working these crap jobs designed for kids to support their family.
The problem isn't healthcare, or min wage its the idiots working these crappy jobs. They need to grow up.
onequestion
Why don't all these idiots get real jobs or go to college and get away from this stupidity?
If they weren't so lazy, or prone to making poor decisions then they wouldnt have to have mothers and fathers working these crap jobs designed for kids to support their family.
The problem isn't healthcare, or min wage its the idiots working these crappy jobs. They need to grow up.
pauljs75
College these days seems to be another expensive debt added on with the reward of "nope we're not interested in what you have to offer right now" until you break down and take yet another crappy job doing the kind of stuff you were trying to get away from. (Ok there might be some fields still in demand, but unless your interests lie in healthcare, teaching, or arcane business-related number-crunching type stuff, the pickings tend to be very slim in what you can get out of college.)
Snarl
pauljs75
College these days seems to be another expensive debt added on with the reward of "nope we're not interested in what you have to offer right now" until you break down and take yet another crappy job doing the kind of stuff you were trying to get away from. (Ok there might be some fields still in demand, but unless your interests lie in healthcare, teaching, or arcane business-related number-crunching type stuff, the pickings tend to be very slim in what you can get out of college.)
Add to that, college can be a major setback in terms of time itself. The four-year degree has turned into five. Having a degree may not be enough of a qualification to compete against one's peers. And, sometimes, that degree's not important in the workplace until you've reached upper-management levels (where you can finally afford to pay it off).
-Cheers
oblvion
Have we unintentionally drank " the kool-aid", or has our country really fallen so far?
blkcwbyhat
reply to post by FyreByrd
this is a great theory,not sure if it was intended,but it makes sense.The other upside is,that with more PT workers,you need to hire to fill in the gaps,so you'll get lower unemployment figures.Would you like more PT workers,or more unemployed FT workers?At least a part time worker will get reduced food stamps/welfare,where a FT needs none,hopefully.I'd support a "starting wage".say 7.50 an hour,for young people entering the workforce,then a "living min wage" of 10 or so for those over 21. A stepped wage?