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Old 12-04-2013, 10:11 PM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon View Post
in many minimum wage job there is no ladder to climb. more and more people are being told to work more and expect less. what great motivation. as time goes on there will be many more people than jobs available and we will have to accept that not everyone will ever be able to have one regardless of the pay.
Something else that has changed.. At one point minimum wage actually kept people out of poverty, meaning even if you worked at the lowest legal wage with a family of three, you were not in poverty. Today a person working at the lowest legal wage with one child whom works 40hrs a week, 52 weeks a year is living in poverty.

The reason for this, is because minimum wage has not kept up with inflation.

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