Minimum wage: What is life like after a 25 cent raise?

[OakRidgeStars]

No one earning minimum wage will ever escape the cycle of poverty, regardless of how much it's increased.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... -increase/

[jdonovan]

Yep, I travel to another country where minimum wage is about $20 in USD. Nearly everything there costs 2-2.5 what it does back home after you convert the currency. Net-net the goods cost about the same as a per-centage of the average income.

[SHMIV]

As I began reading that article, I was thinking that the woman in the article probably had a history of bad life choices. Then I got to the part where she ripped off her employer. Suspicion confirmed. I have got zero sympathy for that dingbat.

Minimum wage laws are useless and burdensome. They do absolutely nothing for the wage recipient, and discourage businesses from doing business.

Besides; I don't believe that I have held a minimum wage job since I was 13. Really, it doesn't that much effort to move a dollar or two past that. Of course, it helps when you don't have a history of embezzling money.

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[dusterdude]

Why does it seem that all of this talk is designed to help single mothers?,if mothers would stop having babies then they wouldnt need a raise

[SHMIV]

I'm not certain why single mothers are so glorified. The bulk of them seem to achieve that title by making poor decisions.

Obviously, there are some cases that can't necessarily be helped; a young widow might be an example. But, the woman who chooses to have children with a violent drug addict that will inevitably vanish, is not to be glorified. The woman who has children with multiple men, in order to collect government benefits and child support, most certainly is not to be glorified. It's those types of single mother that I encounter the most.

This glorification of the single mother leads to more single mothers. This leads to children with an absent father and an overwhelmed mother, at best. This leads to children being raised by school systems, and by their peers.

Nothing good comes from that method of child raising; it's short on love, long on indoctrination.

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