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Correct, JoshGL. This article provides no meaningful stats. What would be meaningful would be the % workers from 35-49, prime earning years, at McJobs making McWages.
How many of those 36 year old minimum wage workers completed high school?
We have a lot of stupid people in this country that don't value education, and stupid political groups (leftists mainly) that believe someone bagging groceries should get paid 15 dollars an hour... Or more.
Isn't that sad? Minimum wage jobs are supposed to be for teens and retired folks....not 36 year old adults. Why have they not improved their situation? Because they might lose their taxpayer funded "freebies"?
This is what happens when the government tries to supplement wages. They need to stop it. Those "unemployed" folks do not WANT to work....or they will lose their "benefits"...guess who is paying for their laziness? Yep....Me, and You and whoever else IS working, because we don't want to be at the mercy of the government and it's minimum wage jobs!
Folks need to get off the dole, work their asses off, and make something of themselves. Period.
Let us know when you get back in touch with reality.
The problem isn't minimum wage jobs. The problem is people aren't willing to learn a trade and work. Or, in their defense, no one every bothered to tell them (education, ya'll) about opportunities that are out there right now if only they are willing to look:
To be clear, I believe the minimum wage should be raised. At a minimum to above poverty level and above basic welfare rates. Anyone willing to work should be able to earn more than someone living at home getting a check from Uncle Sam, and that includes healthcare and child care. But that's it. "Low-skill entry-level" means exactly what it says. Flipping burgers at 36 isn't a career, it means you are either giving up on life or something is wrong with you (someone on the autism spectrum, for example, may not be able to learn skills for anything other than an entry-level job).
If you want to do something, learn something something useful that contributes to society. Check out the Mike Rowe Works foundation (of Dirty Jobs and Somebody's Got To Do It fame) for a scholarship or to find available jobs.
Yes because that will actually work well because....
Oh wait.
Corporate taxes are actually amazing low...despite which more jobs haven't occur ed. So thats pretty blatantly wrong.
Regulations.....OK lets assume you are being common sense about this. Leave the environmental ones alone, but get rid of some of the dumb ones. Agreed with some reservations.
We are acting like we want to do business in this country...we've done that for so long that they've began to act like they own the country. Sorry, but no. While I can agree with some of this, the odds are the vast majority is foolishness that could be labeled as "bow down to your corporate overlords.....as if we weren't already!" That being said, provide some examples and try and convince me otherwise.
Exactly... the corporations simply use loopholes to dodge paying taxes, such as spending their profits in the country in which they outsourced the jobs, double whammy for the American worker and taxpayer, but do the multi-millionaire CEOs care? No.
Exactly... the corporations simply use loopholes to dodge paying taxes, such as spending their profits in the country in which they outsourced the jobs, double whammy for the American worker and taxpayer, but do the multi-millionaire CEOs care? No.
Hate to tell you this but those countries are bringing in more revenue than the US.
Go read some annual reports of the multi-nationals. They are reinvesting profits made in that country to expand in that country.
They pay taxes on that money to the country in which it was earned. If they brought back that money they have to pay another tax to the US. The US taxes global income once the money comes back to the US.
What a misleading stat. The few people who actually make minimum wage tend to come from the youngest and oldest. A 15 year old paperboy and a 60 year old door greeter equals an "average age" of 37.
Isn't that sad? Minimum wage jobs are supposed to be for teens and retired folks....not 36 year old adults.
That could very well be the case. Average is not the best stat to measure this.
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