Pretty much this.
And if you raise it, it's a domino effect and slowly everything rises even more, unless govt. puts in a law in which after they raise minimum wage, employers can't rise their prices on anything for a certain time frame...
I also don't think it should be raised because if you do, you encourage folks earning minimum wage to stay "average." What I mean is that a fast food job is only a stepping stone. It's a stop along while you earn a trade or an education or whatever. It's not supposed to be a career. If you make it worthy of a career, why would anyone leave?
My 3 biggest concearns with raising minimum wage are
(1) with the recent passing of the American care act i'm not sure small buisnesses can take another hit.
(2) people who are already on the job and trying to be loyal employees may lose their future cost of living adjustments.
(3) in the past theirs been a trend of many times when minimum wage was increased they shortly thereafter increased government/state benefits (unemployment & welfare) so that in the long run it didnt encourage deadbeats to get a job , but encoureaged people with crappy jobs to become deadbeats.
...otherwise i'm for it.
The biggest problem in this country is there arent many decent paying "unskilled" jobs left. We used to have plants , mills , factories , and people working on assembly lines. Now those jobs are outscourced to other countries.
Nowadays you go out to eat at Olive Garden and your being served by a college graduate who is 20k in school debts and has a 2 year old child at home.
(1) with the recent passing of the American care act i'm not sure small buisnesses can take another hit.
(2) people who are already on the job and trying to be loyal employees may lose their future cost of living adjustments.
(3) in the past theirs been a trend of many times when minimum wage was increased they shortly thereafter increased government/state benefits (unemployment & welfare) so that in the long run it didnt encourage deadbeats to get a job , but encoureaged people with crappy jobs to become deadbeats.
...otherwise i'm for it.
The biggest problem in this country is there arent many decent paying "unskilled" jobs left. We used to have plants , mills , factories , and people working on assembly lines. Now those jobs are outscourced to other countries.
Nowadays you go out to eat at Olive Garden and your being served by a college graduate who is 20k in school debts and has a 2 year old child at home.
There are no longer enough decent paying jobs to support the rate at which graduates are coming out. The job market is so flooded with degrees that HR can now use it as a tool to filter out the thousands of resumes they get for low wage positions each day. We are heading toward the day where a degree is required for minimum wage positions lol.
Once the Government gets their greedy paws out of small business and working Americans pockets there is no need for an increase. Government regulations and the cost associated has made prices rise while keeping pay down. The American dream of competing in a free market has moved overseas due to the cost of producing a product.
