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Originally Posted by crockett
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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minimum wage isn't the problem, nor is it a solution...
back then no-skill labor was in demand (so it paid reasonably well), now it's not.. (due to various factors: globalization, automation, etc)
if there is low demand for no-skill labor, artificially raising wages isn't going to do shit...
solution is to acquire skills that are in demand... but liberals seem to have "something for nothing" attitude, they want to get more, without putting in any effort...