In case you don't understand the obvious relationship between the minimum wage and employment, let me learn you some kindergarten-level economic truth:
In July, Illinois raised it's minimum wage to $10 and saw a drop in employment as service-industry and fast-food workers got laid off. In Seattle the wage is already $13 and will soon be $15. They've seen a drastic drop in employment as well.
Whenever the government mandates wage increases, there is a concomitant drop in employment in that sector. Employers have rightly calculated that washing lettuce isn't worth that much, fired their lettuce washers, and assigned that task to somebody else.
The MW in that state will be raised to $13 by 2019.
Entry-level jobs are for entry-level workers like teenagers, the mildly retarded, and anybody who majored in philosophy or women's studies in college. They are not careers.
Not a career.
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I had a job as a movie theatre usher for 50 cents/hour. Who will pay a HS kid $13 to stand around with a flashlight?
The soundtrack to The Graduate is burned into my brain - so lifelong benefits!
"Entry-level jobs are for entry-level workers like teenagers, the mildly retarded, and anybody who majored in philosophy or women's studies in college."
LOL
Any flavor of "studies."
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