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Fortunately for you, her country is still in its 1st Level Economy. When her country --and another dozen sub-Saharan States -- finally advance to the 2nd Level Economy and start to manufacture goods, you'll lose Millions of jobs, because you will not be able to compete against sub-Saharan Africa States.
The 1.5 Billion people of China and the 1 Billion people of India will be buying goods from sub-Saharan Africa, instead of the US, because, well, you know, the prices will be cheaper.
So you can look forward to that as well.
The point is that raising the federal minimum wage will ultimately back-fire right into your face. It won't do any good to have a $15/hour minimum wage, if there are no jobs.
Doesn't this make MY solution EVEN BETTER than ever?
My solution is to ADAPT NOW to downward mobility, and allow the First World Poor to live in tents. When those Sub-Saharan economies reach the Second Level, poor Americans will be able to work for those low low wages because their living expenses will also be low low.
Of all people, I am astonished that you oppose it. It's as if you want the First World Poor to be unable to get jobs and to be productive and to earn a living.
Doesn't this make MY solution EVEN BETTER than ever?
My solution is to ADAPT NOW to downward mobility, and allow the First World Poor to live in tents. When those Sub-Saharan economies reach the Second Level, poor Americans will be able to work for those low low wages because their living expenses will also be low low.
Of all people, I am astonished that you oppose it. It's as if you want the First World Poor to be unable to get jobs and to be productive and to earn a living.
If you don't have skills to earn enough money to support yourself, you really need to talk to your parents.
My parents were druggies. What would a talk with my parents have accomplished? It's the social and emotional skills of which my parents left me bereft that are my greater problem, not so much my lack of job skills. My parents left me in a playpen to vegetate and I didn't even talk until I was four.
In the second place, you should rely solely on primary sources for data:
In 2016, 79.9 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.7 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 701,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.5 million had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 2.2 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 2.7 percent of all hourly paid workers.The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 3.3 percent in 2015 to 2.7 percent in 2016. This remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979, when data were first collected on a regular basis
1) The proportion of workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage is declining precisely because the proportion of workers earning higher prevailing STATE AND LOCAL minimum wages is increasing.
2) Employers are risk-averse. While I first observed this in the context of increasing applicant standards (and a corresponding increase in the number of people who fall below prevailing employability standards). this risk aversion appears to lead some employers into offering higher wages than required to attract qualified applicants. IOW, Some employers offer wages above the minimum in order to attract higher-quality applicants than they need, when they probably could find qualified applicants at minimum wage.
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