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Originally Posted by FlackBait";p="
That isn’t realistic AT ALL. Many, many, many people have no place to work except retail, Walmart, Target, etc. The REALITY of it is not everyone have those skills, have the ability to learn those skills, nor is there a huge market offering loads of jobs that pay well…at least not on every spot in this country...
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Many, many more people can't even get a job because of the minimum wage. Their labor isn't worth $5.15 an hour + whatever the state charges, and so employers won't hire them in the first place. I would rather have a low wage than none at all, myself.
The minimum wage also hurts people who need to get job training. Ultimately, this hurts the economy quite a bit, because people who don't have valuable labor aren't getting hired at all and don't get the chance to improve the value of their labor, which costs the economy and a lot of individuals a lot of money.
When the minimum wage is raised, employers either have to fire people or raise prices, which completely negates the purpose of the wage raise in the first place.
The minimum wage puts small businesses out of business; raises unemployment; raises prices; severely limits the options of teenagers, students, workers-in-training, part-time workers, and interns (who hold the vast majority of minimum wage jobs currently -- not people with families); and it hurts not-for-profit organizations.